The Disease Terminology in the Medical Codex of Hilandar No 517

In the middle ages, beginning from the end of the 12. century, the Serbs had hospitals which treated the patients according to the Byzanthium and West medical knowledge of that time. The Medical Codex of Hilandar is the most complete Serbian book of the scientific middle age medicine and contains the basis of our medical terminology. The paper analyzes the disease terms only. The relationship between Slavic and non-Slavic terms have been analyzed, their structural and linguistic characteristics (phonetic, morphology and spelling), as well as the use of the middle age terms in the contemporary scientific and folk medical terminology.