The Folk Medicine Concept in Vernacular English of the XIX Century

The research is devoted to studying the Folk Medicine concept in English based on British ethnographic and folklore materials, as well dictionaries of dialects published XIX early XX centuries. work aims analyse its representation a component folk world picture, verbalised that time’s medical language, core which set nominations used denote names diseases associated with ancient practices. On periphery, texts represent superstitions necessary constituents practices connected mentioned nominal units. A comprehensive methodology conceptual analysis allowed identifying basic ideas about Medicine. Based statement meaningful realised consciousness, key nominations’ definitions denoting disease names, their compatibility adjectives verbs, were analysed. influence rites rituals semantics lexical units was proved. identified semantic features concept, including ethnonymic, colourative, anthroponymic, mythological, spatial temporal components.