Abstract:

Vakayi-i Tıbbiye is recognised as the first Turkish medical periodical. Periodicals have the status of primary sources in the analysis and evaluation of the periods in which they were published. The aim of this study is to investigate the section on the medical topography of Bayburt province in Vakayi-i Tıbbiye periodicals and to evaluate the information obtained. In the study, the title scanning of a total of 161 issues of Vakayi-i Tıbbiye journal in IBB Atatürk Library was carried out. As a result of the scanning, the existence of topography titles for four provinces: Van, Aleppo, Burdur and Bayburt were detected. The title of issue 103 of the journal, titled "The topography of the Bayburd sanjak", was examined. In the analysed section, data on Bayburt in various fields such as geography, history, culture, climate, agriculture, social life and medicine were identified. Thus, it was tried to make new contributions to the existing historical information of Bayburt, one of the ancient cities of Anatolia, with the data obtained from Vakayi-i Tıbbiye periodicals. In the study, it was concluded that periodicals in the field of health can contain information types that will appeal to different subjects as well as health issues.