To study the issue of epidemic history in feudal Georgia (Common diseases in western Georgia)

Abstract

The presented scientific publication concerns such actual issue as the history of the study of epidemy  on the example of Western Georgia in the late feudal period.Based on merging different historical sources author highlights the most common diseases here, which had a very bad influence on the health of the population and generally greatly hindered the socio-economic and cultural development of the society. local climatic conditions played an important role in determining diseases because of being the basis of various diseases. According to historical sources the general state of health care in western Georgia was very unsatisfactory, which was caused by a shortage of doctors and medicines. As it turned out, foreign doctors worked here due to the shortage of local doctors. It is noteworthy to mention a  fruitful work of the Catholic missionaries, who were greatly trained in healing. Historical sources do not provide information about the area where different epidemy and diseases were spread and the total number of deaths. However, based on the sources and considering  the nature of different diseases, the author made a conclusion which meant that  possible spread of infectious disease could cause great casualties among the population.From the second half of the XX century, after drying of the coastal swamp, the common sources of the diseases mentioned in the work have practically disappeared from the territory of the Black Sea coast of Georgia.