XIX. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısından XX. Yüzyıla Kadar Konya'da Yaşanan Çiçek Salgını ve Telkîh-i Cederî.

In the historical process, diseases such as cholera, plague, syphilis, malaria and smallpox are the foremost epidemic diseases that have deeply affected many world states. The Ottoman Empire, especially since the 19th century, it has been exposed to smallpox epidemics like other world states. Even though the political crises, military losses and economic depressions, the goverment tried to carry out this process successfully as a result of the health policies it carried out during the epidemic. Vaccination has been the most important treatment method in the fight against smallpox. The province of Konya, which was the capital of the Seljuq Empire and located on the important road route of Central Anatolia, is one of the centers affected by smallpox. Smallpox cases were also occured in the province and in the sanjak, district and sub-districts of the province. The state tried to support the province against epidemics by sending health personnel with sanitary equipment such as vaccine officers, empty and full vaccine tubes. Present study; it constitutes an example of smallpox epidemic cases in the Ottoman Empire. The study was written in line with the documents of the Presidency Ottoman Archives, the sources of the period, the yearbooks of the province and various scientific research-analysis works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]