Information About How to Care Newborn in Haza’inü’s-Sa’adat: A Sample Manuscript From XIV-XVth Century

The author of this manuscript is E？ref b Muhammed, who was said to be a physician during the reigns of Sultan Murad II and Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. Hazai？inü？s-Saa？dat dates from the late 14th century or the early 15th century. E？ref b Muhammed explained the title′s meaning as follows: ―In a the dictionary, health corresponds to happiness. That is why I called this pamphlet Hazai？inü？s-Saa？dat (The Treasuries of Happiness). ― Hazai？inü？s-Saa？dat is mostly about preventive medicine. The work, in accordance with the conventions of the period, begins with basmala (in the name of God). It consists of four parts. In the first part, the author explores the principles of both theoretical and applied medicine. The chapter on theoretical medicine explains the concept of the four humors and the body fluids. The chapter on applied medicine is divided into two subsections: the first section defines health and informs about the care, feeding and diseases of newborn infants according to embryological information. In this study we aime to evaluate the ―newborn in Hazai？inü？s-Saa？dat. The text includes information about newborn and infant care, the temperature and light advisable in the newborn‘s room, cleaning, newborn clothing, how to feed newborns and how to bathe them. The pamphlet provides a list of drugs to be used for diarrhea, constipation, infants tooth cutting, coughing, aphtha, sty, stomach ache, sneezing, spots, herniation and dysentery, in addition to information about breastfeeding, its importance, and drugs that increase breast milk