「한약사 박래욱 일기」로 본 20세기 후반의 민간 의료생활

Abstract

「Korean Herbal Pharmacist Park Ryae-Wook Diary」shows in detail about the daily business of the Korean herbal pharmacist since 1970s, it is given the periodical characteristics of the Korean herbal pharmacy from then on. The oriental medicine and the traditional oriental medical treatment played an important role in remedy of the publics' sickness for a long time in the traditional society where the medical system was poor. Since the analysis of the diary is the indirect factor that has an effect on medical folk customs, it has an important meaning to examine the perception of illness and the usual practice about the traditional oriental medical treatment. This study analyzed the records divided into the illness and treatment of Park Ryae-Wook himself and his family and the that of customers who visited Korean herbal pharmacy as shown in the diary. It is to find out the characteristics of the individual's medical treatment and the medical treatment of Korean herbal pharmacy. As a result of analysis of the diary, it was the common cold that has the highest frequency among the sicknesses that Park Ryae-Wook himself and his families. Also, since the more than half of illnesses from which his patients were suffer were arthritis, neuralgia, and female disorders, it could notice the correlation between the specific illness and Korean herbal medical treatment. Especially, the transition of patients' illness was difference in each in 1970s when Park Ryae-Wook started Korean herbal pharmacy and the late 1980s. The various types of patients visited his pharmacy from common illnesses such as common cold (.etcs) for almost 10 years since 1970s when he started practice. On the other hand, in the late 1980s, it enters on a new phase that is limited to the patients who are suffered from specific serious diseases. Also, after the execution of medical insurance in 1991 in nationwide, Park Ryae-wook felt keenly that patients in Korean herbal pharmacy were decreased. In medical treatment of illness, the customary folk style therapies that Park Ryae-Wook conducted was that the content was mostly inattentive and the most of information was gathered from people around him after manhood. Also, he referred from "Dongwebogam(東醫 寶鑑)" and "Bangyakhappyun(方藥合編)" for medical treatment of patients who visited Korean herbal pharmacy. Also, he kept learning and getting experienced prescription from neighborhood Korean herbal pharmacists. He learned customary medicine and used it for medical examination and treatment. It not only satisfied various demands of the customers but also proved the virtue of the treatment. In conclusion, the contents of the diary showed the creation of new medical folk customs in industrial modernization era, and it had value as data that observes conventional behavior that habitually appeared by the progress of the illness in modern medical service system.