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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Medical Scientific Bulletin of Central Chernozemye (Naučno-medicinskij vestnik Centralʹnogo Černozemʹâ)</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Medical Scientific Bulletin of Central Chernozemye (Naučno-medicinskij vestnik Centralʹnogo Černozemʹâ)</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic">1990-472X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Воронежский государственный медицинский университет имени Н.Н. Бурденко" Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">5033</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18499/1990-472X-2017-0-68-69-80</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Review article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS OF SO-CALLED “FOLK MEDICINE”</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shchavelev</surname><given-names>S P</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>sergei-shhavekev@eandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">Kursk State Medical University</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2017-06-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>06</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><issue>68</issue><fpage>69</fpage><lpage>80</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-04-25"><day>25</day><month>04</month><year>2020</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2017, Научно-медицинский вестник Центрального Черноземья</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>In the scientific and especially educational synopsises of the history of medicine there is exaggeration of historical and cultural significance of the so-called folk or traditional medicine. They concentrate attention upon its separate rational elements that have been taken from scientific medicine and medical technologies. In fact, in terms of modern civilization a small part of medical practices of different peoples of the world was proved itself. These are the field of herbal medicine, physiotherapy (steam bath, etc.), the manual methods. All other ways of folk healing are palliative at best, and the medical occult of primitive sense at worst. This point of view is confirmed by the objective of anthropologists and archaeologists about diseases and life expectancy of people of Stone Age and Early Metal and by ethnologic information about the degree of infection of all archaic societies of the Earth without exception.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>history of medicine</kwd><kwd>traditional practices of ethnic healing</kwd><kwd>the medical occult</kwd><kwd>paleomedicine according to archeology</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>история медицины</kwd><kwd>традиционные практики этнического врачевания</kwd><kwd>медицинский оккультизм</kwd><kwd>палеомедицина по данным археологии</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Бужилова А.М. Homo sapiens. История болезни. М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2005. 320 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Де Вааль Ф. Истоки морали. В поисках человеческого у приматов. М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2014. 384 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>Мельников А.В. Алкоголизм. Руководство по выздоровлению для пьющих людей и их близких людей. М.: Практическая медицина, 2016. 256 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>Смит Дж. Псевдонаука и паранормальные явления: критический взгляд. М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2014. 566 с.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><label>5.</label><mixed-citation>Честертон Г.К. Избранное. М.: Terra, 1996. 592 с.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
