title: ["This helps; this is good". Horse books of Tibetan Himalayas].
abstract: The present paper summarizes our recent investigations of the so-called horse books from the High Himalayas in Nepal. These books are written in tibetan language and are essentially dealing with hippology and hippiatry and to a lesser extent with topics such as pharmacology, anatomy, methods of diagnosis, divination and magical practices for horse races. The therapeutic methods of treatment in tibetan veterinary medicine are guided by the concepts of human medicine which, on the one hand, are related to the Ayurvedic System, on other hand, to the Traditional Chinese Medicine. Concerning the structure of these manuscripts a lot of similarities could be observed with corresponding treatises on horse management and medicine from Europe.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte der Tiermedizin, München.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maurer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von den Driesch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000266:history*; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D009390:Nepal; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000266:history*