„Let every man keep ready at home some horseradish roots and at least one mash of beer, black rue, mixed with half a verdung rye flour.“ : Excerpts from the Possibilities of Curing Cholera during the First Epidemic, 1831

Scheffer, Krisztina (2022) „Let every man keep ready at home some horseradish roots and at least one mash of beer, black rue, mixed with half a verdung rye flour.“ : Excerpts from the Possibilities of Curing Cholera during the First Epidemic, 1831. In: Aegyptus et Pannonia VIII. : Acta Symposii anno 2021. Magyar-Egyiptomi Baráti Társaság, Ókori Egyiptomi Bizottság, Budapest, pp. 127-142. ISBN 978-615-6571-02-1

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Abstract

From the outbreak of the first cholera epidemic in Hungary in June 1831 to its end, 230,000 people, or almost 3% of the population at the time, died and 421,468 became ill. The reasons for the high mortality rate include that an unknown disease spread, there were not enough doctors, and also the mistrust and ignorance, which accompanied the epidemic. In this article we try to answer the question of what knowledge was available at the beginning of the epidemic to help common people protect themselves against the disease. To do this, we have turned to articles in the medical press of the time and to sources preserved in the pages of church registers in the medicina pastoralis. As the surviving prescriptions usually refer to herbs that were known and tried to combat the disease, we have listed the most common herbs and what was known about them at the time.

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