title: [Child welfare, diseases and their treatments in the Turkish medical manuscripts (14th and 15th century)].
abstract: The data of this study is the knowledge related to the children in the Turkish medical manuscripts of 14th and 15th century which constituted the basis of Ottoman Medicine. Our primary aim was to investigate the child welfare and diseases in these manuscripts. So that we searched for these issues and compared them with Avicenna medicine and Tedbir-ul Mevlüd of Saban Sifai (about child welfare and diseases) and classified them according to the contemporary medicine. In this paper, we aimed to find out and determine the medical knowledge on child welfare, diseases and the treatment in the Ottoman medicine of 14th and 15th centuries.
authors.forename: O Necmettin
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Safak
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000266:history*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000266:history; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history; D057214:Ottoman Empire