Circassian military medicine is part of their developed traditional military culture. The empirical experience accumulated over centuries in the conditions of a militarized way of life has contributed to the creation of traditional medicine quite eff ective in the treatment of various kinds of wounds, fractures, burns and other consequences of military operations. The carriers of special knowledge passed down from generation to generation within individual families were Circassian doctors

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... », who represented a separate social stratum in society, along with clergymen, folk bards (jeguacos) and others. The provision of medical care to patients with traditional medicine methods, in addition to medicines and medicines, was accompanied by psychotherapeutic, magical actions, which were refl ected in the rite of healing the wounded -«KIapsh».