[SALERNO HEALTH CODE AS A SOURCE OF MEDICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE]

The purpose of the article is to comprehensively disclose the meaning and relevance of the Salerno Health Code as a medieval source of medical and philosophical memo. In the process of writing a scientific article, the authors have used theoretical, empirical, and historical methods of scientific knowledge, in particular, methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction, comparison, the historical method, and the description method. In addition, the analysis of medical legislation, publications in the media and scientific periodicals, allowed us to study the essence and features of the Salerno Health Code. The article gives reason to a correspondence between the treatment methods proposed by the Salerno Health Code and the methods of modern medicine and the reflection of the basic standards of sanitary and epidemic well-being. The individual components of the Salerno Health Code were analyzed, which contributed to the development of bioethical views on sanitation, gerontology, dietetic, pharmaceuticals, disease prevention, medicine philosophy and more. The attention is focused on the author's approach to the formation of a positive worldview by a person and its relationship with the state of his physical health. The author symbolism of the poetic presentation of medical and philosophical ideas is analyzed. The treatise considers the author's approach to the formation of a positive worldview by a person and his relationship with his state of health. The article notes insufficient attention to the work of Arnold de Villanova in the scientific works of modern Ukrainian scientists in medicine and the humanities, which determines the relevance of further scientific research aimed at revealing the importance and potential of this source of medical and philosophical knowledge. Noted the relevance of certain parts of the Salerno Health Code for solving the problems of modern medical science.