Honouring and Losing Knowledge: Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene in the Early 20th Century
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2016
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Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte
Abstract
Before the Estonian Museum of Hygiene was founded in 1922,
a medical student, the later director of the Museum, Voldemar Sumberg
(1893–1965), published an article Rahwa-meditsiin ja arstiteadus (Folk
medicine and medical science) in the popular magazine Tervis (Health)1.
In the article he explained the principles of understanding and collecting
folk medicine and advocated bringing folk medicine and modern medicine
closer together. In May 1925, the Estonian Museum of Hygiene,
under Sumberg’s lead, distributed their questionnaire Asuge rahva-arstiteaduse
korjamisele (Start to collect folk medicine) to doctors and veterinary
doctors, schools, etc.
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Voldemar Sumberg, Eesti Tervishoiu Muuseum, Estonian Museum of Hygiene, academic medicine, folk medicine, folklore collecting, questionnaires on folk medicine