Healing oil in "Cool vertograd" (1672): linguoculturological aspect

Antsiferova Olga N.

This article describes "Cool Vertograd", a literary text of the 17th century, included in the collection by V. M. Florinsky "Russian common folk herbal and doctor books: collection of medical manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries." Observations of the linguistic facts of the chapters on the therapeutic effect of oils are presented. Models of oil names are identified; an attempt is being made to classify oils according to their use for the treatment of certain diseases. There are cases of fixing the identified oil names in the Dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1789-1794). The fact of using the same oil for the treatment of several diseases is emphasized, which confirms the well-known conclusion about the predominance of mainly psychotherapeutic treatment in the 17th – 19th centuries. At the same time, the search for specific remedies for a particular disease, reflected in the written text, testifies to the existence of the concept of classification medicine at the end of the 17th century.

Keywords:literary texts of the 18th century; Cool Vertograd, Florinsky V. M; names of oils, application of oils, 17th century.