was largely responsible for determining the modern plant names ([@ref3]).

**Valerius Cordus** is the author of the first official medical book. He also wrote the pharmacopoeia "Historia Plantarum". He was a professor at the University of Leipzig. He talked about the character and book of Dioskurides and presented the most important features of Dioskurides classification and all his lectures on Dioskurides, which he held to students, were published after his death ([@ref3]).

The Dioskurides describes for each listed drug its habitat, provides botanical description, explains its properties or mode of action, describes its medical use and side effects, provides quantities and dosages, provides instructions on collection, treatment and preservation of plants, describes methods of destruction and testing for detecting defects, providing veterinary, magical and non-medical use, and pointing to whereSina's medicine. They were copied by the folk and were the main source of folk medicine ([@ref27]-[@ref40]). Official literature, however was written in Turkish and Arabic languages and therefore was available only to the highest members of the society. Even though "Ljekaruša"s had useful knowledge, they were also filled with superstition. They were using amulets, fetishes, and scrolls, as well as parchments of Qur'an, which was contrary to Islamic principles.

Attars were drug specialists that operated in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 16th century. They can be held responsible for development of the folk and traditional medicine ([@ref19], [@ref28]). Their arrival coincides with arrival of sefardJews from Spain in 1492. Their knowledge stemmed from the Arabian medicine. Attars were mostly situated in bigger cities. Attar practices are being soon picked