'Teach yourself respect your health/The disease will strip you of your joy.' Sanitary disciplination and enlightenment of population of Czech lands at the beginning of 19th century
2009
Abstract
The study deals with the 'sanitary enlightenment' at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries. It stresses the role of the 'mediators' as teachers and priests (both catholic and - namely - protestant).
The study analyzes selected publications dedicated to the 'medicine of the poor' that emerged in the milieu of protestant intellectuals. A particular attention is paid to the role of the Prague university professor A.
Zarda that held a special 'first help' courses for lay public, especially for priests.