Evaluation of the Bulgarian medicine in the ninth century.
One of the questions that has not been adequately addressed up to now concerns the level of the official Bulgarian medicine in the ninth and tenth centuries. A reliable assessment of the medicine at that time is possible to obtain by comparing it with the medicine in other countries of the Christian World. The author chooses the Byzantine medicine which is held by the general view to be the culmination of the Medieval medicine in the Christian world. The comparisons between the Bulgarian and Byzantine medicine allows us to make the assertion that the medicine in Bulgaria was far from being at a lower level than that of Bizantium. This fact is worth the attention of the investigators and requires additional research.
Kuvandzhiev
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Clinic of Gastroenterology, Higher Medical Institute, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
D002031:Bulgaria; D018612:Byzantium; D049691:History, Medieval