[Ottoman juridical court cases related with medicine at the end of the 15th century].
This is a study of the Ottoman archive documents on juridical court cases related with medicine. The main source is the qadi registers in Bursa, Turkey. The documents comprise the malpractice cases by physicians, the diagnosis of the leprous and the insane; and the decisions of qadis about several cases, for example, about a pharmacist, the personnel of the hospital etc. Thus, the article gives an idea about the tendency of the Ottoman officials on some medical-social problems, as well as the medical jurisprudence of the time.
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D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D008514:Medicine, Arabic / Q000266:history*; D014421:Turkey