The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.

My interest in medical proverbs began in my early student years, when my father, a physi- cian, suggested this topic to me as a joint venture. Concurrently with our joint collecting activities I completed my seminar paper and even published a short paper, which I do not include in my list of publications. At that point I began to harbour misgivings as to the scientific value of the topic, and I took the opportunity to discuss them with two venerable literary scholars, Miron Petrovskii and Vadim Skuratovskii.

Their verdict was unanimous: Both the collection and Folklore 46 http: Although presented to me very politely and amiably, this conclusion caused me a profound psychological trauma. For six months I could write nothing at all, and then I switched abruptly from folklore to literary studies.

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My emigra- tion in caused me to return to the path of folklore studies, but one angle of it, namely medical proverbs, remained previously sealed for me and thus my father must be again mentioned. He carried our collection in his immi- grant luggage; he even brought along my old seminar paper. Then, suddenly, the situation changed when two years ago, in one of our numerous fervent debates on medical proverbs it struck me that my father was growing old.

This understanding changed the whole perspective of the issue so I was not about to deprive him of one of the few pleasures remain- ing to him.

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The fear that he might not see this work published, and I would blame myself for it, was bitterer than the memory of my failure so long ago. And so I agreed to publish the book of medical proverbs, with the proviso that he typed it out himself on the computer and as my father was still not really computer literate the task was enormous. But he accomplished it, and even added many Jewish proverbs himself and so the upshot is that our book has been published. It is disregarded in both medical and folklore stud- ies. Scholars simply deal with either of these types without specifying them.

But the difference should be defined as not all the proverbs used by medical practitioners are medical in content; and medical content does not automati- cally imply the use of these items in medicine. Medical proverbs and proverbial sayings uttered by people constitute pithy observations, opinions and advices across a whole array of human existence, covering life, death, illnesses, and relations of doctors and patients.

Elmquist introduced the notions of indirect and direct references to physiologi- cal matters in proverbs and proverbial sayings, limiting his research to the latter group Elmquist The Problem of Applied Folklore lieve, completely out of place. To my mind, the narrow cluster of medical prov- erbs includes those about illness, pain, doctors, patients, folk healers, healthy and unhealthy habits, medication, and diagnostic and prognostic proverbs, while a broad cluster also encompasses proverbs and sayings about life and death, general ideas about age and so on.

To the best of my knowledge, the collections of medical proverbs are not limited to the narrow group, which is as it should be. The borders between health and illness, age and illness, and even life and death, are permeable and cannot be sealed. Latin medical proverbs are known from late Antiquity while collections of medical proverbs exist since the Middle Ages Mieder Sometimes both roles are combined in one person e. The intended readership of such publications varies between the general pub- lic and medical personnel. In any event, the books in question are not meant for professional folk- lorists.

Proverbs are used in medicine in various ways. Some are indeed medical proverbs, functioning in the way set out above. Others, although deprived of medical content, are nevertheless an integral part of medical discourse. This text, taken out of the context, has no indication of medical content at all.

Yet as shown by Alan Dundes and colleagues, it is used in a number of variations by doctors in their papers published in professional medical journals. Here we have a clear example of an in-group proverb which, taken out of professional discourse, loses its medical character entirely. But the proverb about the horses and zebras suits another para- digm, namely, informal medical discourse Stoianova The test uses both the multiple- choice and the free-answer techniques, the former consisting of 40 items, each with four possible answers; the latter comprises 12 items, scaled in order of difficulty.

The free-answer test is more reliable, especially with the high intel- ligence group Gorham Wolfgang Mieder pointed out that the items in the proverbs test are extracted from their context, which is of crucial importance for their understanding Mieder I would like to add that to my knowledge the papers on the application of the proverbs test in psychiatry published in medical journals carry no references whatsoever to research of proverbs in folklore. This indicates that the tests are designed by people whose under- standing of the proverbs is that of the lay public, not of professionals.

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Some of them have evident medical content: Nevertheless, proverbs in medical use can be without distinct medical content. As an example I can quote a prov- erb: This context-oriented approach to proverbs in medical set- tings may be based on some knowledge of folklore studies Al-Krenawi or be completely devoid of it Jackson The choice of items under each heading may also be more rigid or less. The items are generally set under the rubrics in alphabetical order, as is usual in any general collection of proverbs. Today, having completely abandoned that idea, I still consider this classification appropriate for applied folklore.

In fact, this classification is the oppo- site of the scientific structural approach based on the form, not the image Dundes It adds nothing to our understanding of proverbs as a genre, but can be utilized in concrete activities with the audience. In my search for scientific papers on medical proverbs I found several in English and only one in Russian.

This was by Nikolai Fedorovich Vysotskii, a professor of surgery and pathology from Kazan University, written early in the 20th century Vysotskii Polivanova proverbs served as an additional source, while their study consisted mainly of analyses of jokes.

For that reason, although many items in contemporary Rus- sian-language collections are indeed Russian proverbs, I can compare their content mostly with the observations made in the West. Vysotskii published two items linking the systematic deteriora- tion of certain diseases hernia, mental problems with the beginning or the end of any month. Time is also mentioned as important in gathering of medici- nal herbs Vysotskii In our collection too, a rare proverb al- ludes to a correlation between a season and certain health problems: According to Elmquist, injuries are most often mentioned among the variety of health problems, while little information is given about psychic condition, sleep, doctors, hygiene, sex and social diseases.

His finding is not confirmed by other collections, which emphasize the exist- ence of numerous proverbs about doctors and sleep Vysotskii Most authors agree on the importance of proverbs about diet, hygiene and alcohol. The names of products can vary. Soup, salted cucumbers, bread, garlic, onion, point, butter, kasha and alcohol make up his menu based on proverbs Elmquist Vysotskii and Mieder, unlike Elmquist, highlight an abundance of proverbs on psychosomatic issues.

Garrison perceives physiological and psychological observations, rather than notions of pathology which can be found in proverbs, to be of major importance for a physician Garrison In Russian-language collections fruits are rarely mentioned in a strictly medical context. On the other hand, Russian proverbs about onions and garlic are extremely popular: The list of diseases mentioned in the proverbs is indeed very limited. In addition to the common cold there are also other ailments, e. Some extremely rare items about leprosy and consumption are also found: Many proverbs involve alcohol.

According to Vysotskii, moderate use of alcohol is perceived as healthful in folk wisdom: They may be missed out when the collectors want to propagate so- briety and are not concerned with showing the diversity of the material Sysoev Along with typical proverbs about the danger of alcohol, which are pub- lished in all collections, nowadays a number of proverbs are about drug addic- tion: The absence of proverbs about drugs in earlier Russian-language collections may due to two processes: Both circumstances changed drastically after the fall of the USSR.

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