XIX.-XX. Yüzyıllar Arasında Türkistan’a Giden Bazı Doktor ve Doğa Bilimci Seyyahların Bölge Sağlığına Etkileri
The Impact of Physicians and Naturalist Explorers in Turkestan on Regional Health between the 19th and 20th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century, the Turkestan locals largely benefited from traditional medical methods. Healers applied treatments using a wide variety of medicinal plants, minerals and animal products. Bloodletting, heating, sweating and the use of medicinal leeches were quite common in the society. In addition to ready-made medicines based on plants and minerals, the physicians of the period also knew the methods of preparing substances such as sulfuric and nitric acid. The diseases caused by the consumption of unclean water were quite diverse. In addition to skin diseases such as rishta and yarra afghani, eye diseases were also frequently seen. In addition, epidemic diseases such as cholera, plague and typhus caused high mortality rates. From the early years of the 19th century onwards, doctors and naturalists who went to Turkestan as part of various missions conducted important research both in line with their scientific curiosity and the interests and demands of the countries they were a part of. Russia benefited from naturalists and doctors in order to achieve its goals regarding the region and to strengthen its dominance in the region. With the occupation of Turkestan in the second half of the 19th century, hospitals were established to serve Russian soldiers and newly arrived immigrants. Dispensaries and polyclinics serving the local population have been opened.

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