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On the basis of literary sources, archival data, materials of the author's field research, an attempt is made to reconstruct folk medicine of Ukrainians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to generalise the centuries-old experience accumulated in this field of traditional knowledge. The author reveals the place and role of folk medicine in the life of the people, socio-economic, historical and cultural factors of its existence. The means of treatment, folk views on diseases, their origin, etc. are characterised.

For ethnographers, historians, medical professionals, and anyone interested in the history of the culture of the Ukrainian people.