title: [Preventive medicine in old religions].
abstract: This paper describes religious laws about hygienic problems in the old cultures. Special problems have been the prevention of infectious diseases, but also the problems of nutrition. The old laws had no great preventive efficiency, because the causes of the most diseases were unknown.
mesh_terms: D049690:History, Ancient; D006920:Hygiene; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine
vernacular_title: Präventivmedizin in den alten Religionen.