Contrasting diagnostic and prescribing patterns in traditional paediatrics
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1982
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Mulholland, Jean
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Thai traditional medicine is one of two legally recognized
systems of medicine practised in Thailand, the other being Western
medicine. The authorised teaching syllabus for the licensing examinations
in Thai traditional medicine and pharmacy is a group of medical texts
handed down for generations.
This thesis is the first scholarly study of one of these medical
texts.
Kharrrphee prathom ckin d a a, the text examined, was compiled in
1871 from earlier texts of unknown origin. Similar texts were in
evidence during the seventeenth century, and may have been in existence
for hundreds of years prior to this.
Khamphee prathom chindaa is the most interesting of this group
of medical texts, and is the only one concerned specifically with
paediatrics. It was studied for its own intrinsic interest as well
as to gain an understanding of the theories of medicine and of pharmacy
which guide the traditional Thai doctor in his diagnosis and medicinal
treatment of diseases.
By identifying the systems of classificaion of diseases, and by
applying the systems of classification of drugs used in Thai traditional
medicine and pharmacy, some of the theories of the traditional
practitioner have been clarified.
The therapeutic uses of a select group of drugs which occur as
ingredients in many of the recipes for medicine in the text have been
compared, where possible, with uses known in Thailand and in Western
medicine, and some examples of the various types of medicinal treatment
are given.
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