Prilozi za povijest narodnog ljekarništva i travarstva u karlovačkom Pokuplju
Contribution to the History of Folk Medicine and Herb-collecting in Karlovačko Pokuplje

Summary/Abstract: In Zbornik za narodni život i običaje vol 14, no. 1 (Zagreb 1909), dr. Fran Gundrum-Oriovčanin published a folk medicine collection »Everyday Home Remedies« which was written in the kajkavian dialect (vith additions in Latin) by Imbro Luić. He was a monk, lived in the first half of the 18th century, and spent all of his life in monasteries at the Slovene-Croatian border. On his tours of villages and visits to sick peasants he collected folk medical prescriptions. Imbre Luić gathered the largest number of prescriptions while living in the monasteries of Svetice and Kamensko in Karlovačko Pokuplje between 1729 and 1740. According to his prescription book, peasants prepared remedies from animal, vegetative and human materials. Illnesses were grouped in eight categories: from pulmonary diseases, to malfunctions of various organs and of the nervous system, to external injuries. The healing power of many remedies was at least partially derived from magic.

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