Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
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description: AMHA – Acta medico-historica Adriatica objavljuje izvorne znanstvene članke, prethodna priopćenja, pregledne radove, prikaze knjiga, prikaze skupova i komentare pisane britanskim engleskim (iznimno američkim u dogovoru s gl. ur.) ili jezicima jadranskih i srednjoeuropskih naroda. Teme priloga moraju težiti unapređivanju znanja u području povijesti medicine i drugih srodnih znanstvenih disciplina, kao i kulturnog naslijeđa jadranske i srednjoeuropske regije u najširem smislu. Uz to dobro došli su i radovi iz ostalih krajeva. Zaprimljene članke razmatrat će najmanje dvoje neovisnih recenzenata koje odredi Urednički odbor. AMHA - Acta medico-historica Adriatica publishes original scientific papers, preliminary communication, review articles, book reviews, overviews of conferences, and other contributions, commentaries written in British English (exceptionally in American English if so agreed with the editor in chief) and in the languages of the Adriatic and Central European nations. The contributions must aim at advancing the knowledge of the history of medicine and other related scientific disciplines, as well as of the cultural heritage of the Adriatic and Central Europe in its broadest sense. Contributions from other regions are also welcome. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two independent referees appointed by the Editorial Board.
publisher: Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
language: en
publication name: Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
issn: 1334-4366
items: Prvih devedeset godina Jurja Sepčića: otok, gradovi, sveučilište, kolege i prijatelji u čast Jurja Sepčića – neurologa i čovjeka boljeg od svoga vremena
items: Tom Frieden, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own. MIT Press, 2025, 282 pp.
items: Toni Buterin, Robert Doričić, Amir Muzur, A Short & Unpretentious Historical-Medical Guide to Rijeka. On the 70th Anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka
items: Hrvatski medicinski udžbenici i priručnici 19. stoljeća
items: Biennial Conference of the European Association of History of Medicine and Health: Health Beyond Medicine (Berlin, 26–29 August 2025)
items: Nikola Kujundžić - Velika poljička ljekaruša (Bratulićeva ljekaruša): obrada, transkript i faksimil
items: Održan skup u čast umirovljenom profesoru Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci Anti Škrobonji povodom 80. godišnjice života
items: THE PHARMACY HERITAGE IS ALL AROUND US
items: LJEKARNIŠTVO NA CRESU: FRAGMENTI POVIJESTI PROFESIJE I KULTURE
items: FIGHTING AIDS IN PORTUGAL: THE RESPONSES OF PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES (1983-2000)
items: THE HISTORY OF POLISH PHARMACY MUSEUMS IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN MUSEOLOGY
items: DR. AVELIN ROBLEK, BJELOVARSKI I LJUBLJANSKI GRADSKI FIZIK
items: UTJECAJ RAZVOJA PSIHIJATRIJSKE MISLI NA KLASIFIKACIJU POREMEĆAJA LIČNOSTI 19. STOLJEĆA
items: FRAKTURE KOSTIJU I NJIHOVO LIJEČENJE U DREVNOM EGIPTU NA TEMELJU PAPIRUSA EDWINA SMITHA
items: THE CREATORS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL IN FERRARA: TWO MEMBERS OF THE CAMPANA FAMILY
items: PURGATORY, ICONIZATION OF SUFFERING, AND DEVOTIONAL ASPECTS
items: Luko Stulli i njegovo oduševljenje cijepljenjem u kontekstu recentne pandemije koronavirusom
items: Evolucija sepse kroz evoluciju mikroorganizama
items: A Balanced Diet for a Choleric Man in Early Modern England
items: Pediatric Surgery in 19th-Century Greece: A Historical Analysis of Theodoros Aretaios’s Case Records
items: 2nd International Conference on the History of Health
items: ON KANT’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE COOPERATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE THROUGH EXAMPLES OF REASON AND BODY
items: ŞEREFFEDDIN SABUNCUOĞLU (1386–147?)
items: Prostitucija i venerične bolesti u Dubrovniku za vrijeme Velikoga rata (1914. – 1918.)
items: RENAISSANCE ANATOMIST JACOPO BERENGARIO DA CARPI
items: MOMENTS FROM THE LIFE OF IULIU BARASCH (1815–1863)
items: HYPOCHONDRIA AS A DISTRACTION OF THE REASON WITHIN KANT'S TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY
items: THE KNOWABILITY OF BIOMEDICAL LAWS
items: KANT'S CONCEPT OF HEALTH AS AN INTERACTION OF MIND AND BODY
items: SLOVENIAN INFLUENCE IN EARLY 18TH CENTURY INOCULATIONS

Prvih devedeset godina Jurja Sepčića: otok, gradovi, sveučilište, kolege i prijatelji u čast Jurja Sepčića – neurologa i čovjeka boljeg od svoga vremena
type: item
description: Meeting review/ Prikaz skupa
subject: Meeting Review
  topic: section
creator: Toni Buterin
rights: Copyright (c) 2026
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 323
ending page: 324

Tom Frieden, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own. MIT Press, 2025, 282 pp.
type: item
description: Book review/ Prikaz knjige
subject: Book review
  topic: section
creator: Adrijan Štivić
rights: Copyright (c) 2026
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 319
ending page: 322

Toni Buterin, Robert Doričić, Amir Muzur, A Short & Unpretentious Historical-Medical Guide to Rijeka. On the 70th Anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka
type: item
description: Book review/ Prikaz knjige
subject: Book review
  topic: section
creator: Marko Medved
rights: Copyright (c) 2026
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 313
ending page: 318

Hrvatski medicinski udžbenici i priručnici 19. stoljeća
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.6 S obzirom na nužnost i važnost medicine u svakodnevnome životu, nije čudno što medicinsku literaturu na hrvatskome jeziku pratimo već nekoliko stoljeća. Do danas je većim brojem radova dan pregled povijesti medicinske literature na hrvatskome jeziku, mahom leksikografskih radova, enciklopedistike i publicistike. Unatoč tomu, hrvatska medicinska udžbenička i priručnička literatura 19. stoljeća rjeđe je sustavno proučavana kao zasebna cjelina. Devetnaesto je stoljeće u povijesti hrvatske znanstvene i kulturne produkcije iznimno važno: obilježeno je intenziviranjem rada na standardizaciji hrvatskoga jezika, jačanjem znanstvene terminologije te prosvjetiteljskim idejama da se znanost na hrvatskome jeziku približi javnosti. Djela nastala u tom razdoblju svjedoče o razvoju medicine na hrvatskome prostoru i vrijedan su izvor za proučavanje povijesti hrvatskoga znanstvenog i stručnog nazivlja, kao i znanstvenoga stila. Cilj je ovoga rada dati pregled odabranih hrvatskih medicinskih udžbenika i priručnika nastalih u 19. stoljeću, popisati ih te ukratko opisati njihovu strukturu, sadržaj i namjenu. Takvim se pristupom nastoji pridonijeti dopunjavanju postojećih pregleda starije hrvatske medicinske literature i ukazati na važnost tih djela za interdisciplinarna istraživanja.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: povijest hrvatske medicine
  topic: keywords
subject: medicinski udžbenici i priručnici
  topic: keywords
subject: povijest hrvatskoga književnog jezika
  topic: keywords
subject: hrvatsko medicinsko nazivlje
  topic: keywords
creator: Mateja Fumić Bistre
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 287
ending page: 297

Biennial Conference of the European Association of History of Medicine and Health: Health Beyond Medicine (Berlin, 26–29 August 2025)
type: item
description: Scientific meeting review
subject: Scientific meeting review
  topic: section
creator: Mojca Ramšak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 189
ending page: 193

Nikola Kujundžić - Velika poljička ljekaruša (Bratulićeva ljekaruša): obrada, transkript i faksimil
type: item
description: Prikaz knjige
subject: Book review
  topic: section
creator: Amir Muzur
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 181
ending page: 183

Održan skup u čast umirovljenom profesoru Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci Anti Škrobonji povodom 80. godišnjice života
type: item
description: Prikaz skupa
subject: Scientific meeting review
  topic: section
creator: Marko Medved
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 185
ending page: 187

THE PHARMACY HERITAGE IS ALL AROUND US
type: item
description: Guest Editorial
subject: Guest Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Marin Pintur
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 117
ending page: 119

LJEKARNIŠTVO NA CRESU: FRAGMENTI POVIJESTI PROFESIJE I KULTURE
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.8 Prve vijesti o ljekarni u Cresu datiraju iz 15. stoljeća. Još 1431. creski se gradonačelnik bavio pitanjem nabave lijekova, a od kraja stoljeća do modernoga doba zapisnici creskog Općinskog vijeća vrve od vijesti o dobivanju ljekarničkih licenci, kao i plaćama i prijeporima ljekarnika. Dugo vremena ljekarnicima su bili doseljenici iz Istre i Italije, koji bi u Cresu ostajali kraće ili duže vrijeme, da bi se od 19. stoljeća ljekarništvo skrasilo u rukama obitelji Colombis i Rossi. Nakon Drugoga svjetskoga rata Ljekarna Cres postala je dijelom riječke tvrtke Ljekarna Jadran. Analizirajući desetine izvora i literaturnih jedinica, ovaj prilog nastoji osvijetliti bogatu, nedovoljno istraženu i premalo poznatu povijest jedne profesije koja paralelno razotkriva ne manje zanimljive fragmente creske svakodnevice i kulture.
subject: Preliminary Communication
  topic: section
subject: povijest medicine
  topic: keywords
subject: povijest farmacije
  topic: keywords
subject: ljekarništvo
  topic: keywords
subject: Mediteran
  topic: keywords
subject: Jadran
  topic: keywords
subject: Cres
  topic: keywords
creator: Igor Eterović
creator: Toni Buterin
creator: Juraj Sepčić
creator: Amir Muzur
creator: Robert Doričić
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 167
ending page: 180

FIGHTING AIDS IN PORTUGAL: THE RESPONSES OF PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES (1983-2000)
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.7 The first official case of HIV infection in Portugal was confirmed in 1983. Faced with the threat of a global epidemic caused by an unknown virus, Portugal responded to the WHO’s call in 1985 by establishing institutions with the aim of supporting state decisions, conducting epidemiological studies, controlling the spread of the virus, diagnosing cases, disseminating information, and educating the population. Portugal has come a long way from initially denying the existence of the disease and refusing to disclose the positive result to patients. The serious case of infecting haemophiliacs with a batch of Factor VIII imported from an Austrian laboratory, resulting in the deaths of dozens of patients, forced the Portuguese public health authorities to create organisations able to face the fight against AIDS. By trying to control the serious drug addiction problem after the Portuguese revolution of April 1974, the conservative society was able to change its attitude and pass groundbreaking legislation worldwide and implement a successful programme to control AIDS infection among injecting drug users. Issues such as the effectiveness of these measures in controlling the AIDS epidemic and their impact on Portuguese society at the end of the 20th century will be addressed in this paper.
subject: Original scientific article
  topic: section
subject: AIDS
  topic: keywords
subject: HIV
  topic: keywords
subject: drug users
  topic: keywords
subject: public health
  topic: keywords
subject: Portugal
  topic: keywords
creator: Paula Basso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 141
ending page: 165

THE HISTORY OF POLISH PHARMACY MUSEUMS IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN MUSEOLOGY
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.6 The article outlines the history of Polish pharmacy museums in the broader European context. The first efforts to establish such an institution date back to the second half of the 19th century, when, despite the lack of a Polish sovereign state, Polish pharmacists, passionate about their trade, called for the creation of a pharmacy museum. Their continued efforts faced multiple obstacles, with the two World Wars being the worst of them. During the inter-war period, multiple collections were assembled, but the first Polish museum of pharmacy was established only after the Second World War, in 1946, in Kraków, thanks to Dr Stanisław Proń. In the 1970s, a number of smaller museums were established in other Polish cities, including Lublin, Warsaw, Poznań, Bydgoszcz, and Gdańsk. The transformation following the collapse of the Iron Curtain caused a temporary crisis for pharmacy museums in Poland, with some establishments being liquidated due to the withdrawal of funding. However, soon after Polish society became accustomed to the new realities, a number of museums were restored, and even new ones were established, some as part of municipal museums (Warszawa, Bydgoszcz), some within universities, and some even funded by private companies (Lublin, Łódź). The article illustrates the richness and distinctiveness of the field of Polish pharmaceutical museology, while also observing its connection to wider European realities.
subject: Original scientific article
  topic: section
subject: pharmacy museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Poland
  topic: keywords
subject: museology
  topic: keywords
subject: history of pharmacy
  topic: keywords
creator: Wojciech Ślusarczyk
creator: Łukasz Pigoński
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 121
ending page: 139

DR. AVELIN ROBLEK, BJELOVARSKI I LJUBLJANSKI GRADSKI FIZIK
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.5 U ovome je radu prikazano javnozdravstveno djelovanje dr. Avelina Robleka (1845. – 1889.) kroz njegov profesionalni put gradskoga fizika Bjelovara i Ljubljane u okvirima medicine na našim prostorima s kraja 19. stoljeća. Dr. Roblek diplomirao je na Medicinskom fakultetu u Grazu 1874., nakon čega je radio u Ljubljani i tri godine u Litiji. Od 1882. do 1888. bio je gradski fizik i primarni liječnik županijske bolnice u Bjelovaru, a potom, do prerane smrti, gradski fizik u Ljubljani. Funkcije gradskoga fizika u drugoj polovici 19. stoljeća u tadašnjem Austrijskom Carstvu ponajvećma su bile javnozdravstvene: protuepidemijske mjere, cijepljenja, pregledi i sanitarni izvidi uvjeta života, kontrole prostitutki, mrtvozorstva i sudskomedicinske obdukcije te kontrola rada primalja i mrtvozornika. Upravo o tim funkcijama i provedenim mjerama dr. Roblek je redovito izvještavao gradske magistrate u Bjelovaru i Ljubljani u kojoj je i umro zarazivši se obavljajući posao fizika.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: javno zdravstvo
  topic: keywords
subject: epidemiologija
  topic: keywords
subject: Bjelovar
  topic: keywords
subject: Ljubljana
  topic: keywords
subject: Austro-Ugarska Monarhija
  topic: keywords
creator: Dubravko Habek
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 107
ending page: 116

UTJECAJ RAZVOJA PSIHIJATRIJSKE MISLI NA KLASIFIKACIJU POREMEĆAJA LIČNOSTI 19. STOLJEĆA
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.4 U radu je prikazan razvoj psihijatrijske misli tijekom dugoga devetnaestog stoljeća u Europi i Hrvatskoj, pri čemu se detaljnije prikazao razvoj klasifikacije poremećaja ličnosti. Ta je dijagnostička kategorija na granici psihički zdravog i bolesnog, što najzornije otvara suštinska pitanja u psihijatrijskoj znanosti. Ta su pitanja bila i ostala predmetom znanstvenih istraživanja u psihijatriji, a svoje temelje i zamah dobili su u dugom devetnaestom stoljeću, što se ogleda u plodonosnoj aktivnosti velikoga broja onodonih liječnika i znanstvenika od Francuske, Engleske preko Italije do Austrije i Njemačke. U radu je prikazan I doprinos hrvatskih liječnika, poglavito dr. Ive Žirovčića kao dugogodišnjeg ravnatelja prve psihijatrijske bolnice u Hrvatskoj, u postavljanju temelja hrvatske psihijatrije čiji je zakašnjeli razvoj uvelike ubrzan otvaranjem Zavoda za umobolne u Stenjevcu, današnje Klinike za psihijatriju Vrapče.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: povijest psihijatrije
  topic: keywords
subject: povijest hrvatske psihijatrije
  topic: keywords
subject: poremećaji ličnosti
  topic: keywords
creator: Zvonimir Paštar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 81
ending page: 106

FRAKTURE KOSTIJU I NJIHOVO LIJEČENJE U DREVNOM EGIPTU NA TEMELJU PAPIRUSA EDWINA SMITHA
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.3 Drevni Egipat podrazumijeva područje uz rijeku Nil na kojemu se razvila staroegipatska civilizacija. Kao državna tvorevina, Egipat je bio mjesto mnogih prvijenaca, od arhitekture, umjetnosti, ekonomije, ali i znanosti. S vremenom se u svećeničkom staležu u Egiptu počinju javljati svećenici koji svoj život posvećuju različitim znanostima, ponajprije astronomiji, astrologiji, ali i medicini. Upravo će medicina biti u središtu pozornosti ovoga rada te će se pritom pobliže predstaviti dijagnoze te metode i načini liječenja fraktura kostiju. Unatoč činjenici da će se u radu govoriti o izrazito starim povijesnim razdobljima, izvore za ovu temu može se pronaći na drevnim egipatskim papirusima koji su preživjeli do današnjih dana. Zbog toga treba istaknuti Papirus Edwina Smitha koji je svojedobna riznica o medicinskoj znanosti drevnog Egipta. Također, pošto je egipatska religija bila izrazito snažno ukorijenjena u čitavo egipatsko društvo, ne treba se čuditi što se brojni medicinski postupci i lijekovi mogu pronaći u magičnim tekstovima/inkantacijama koje bi drevni svećenici izgovarali tijekom liječenja pacijenta. Ovaj će rad isprva ukratko predstaviti egipatsku medicinu općenito, zatim njezinu usku vezu s religijom i magijom te konačno dijagnostiku, metode i zahvate pomoću kojih bi drevni liječnici tretirali frakture kostiju svojih pacijenata na temelju Papirusa Edwin Smitha.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: Papirus Edwina Smitha
  topic: keywords
subject: drevni Egipat
  topic: keywords
subject: frakture
  topic: keywords
subject: magija
  topic: keywords
subject: medicina
  topic: keywords
subject: religija
  topic: keywords
subject: vjerovanja
  topic: keywords
creator: Zlatko Đukić
creator: Robert Stubičar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 57
ending page: 79

THE CREATORS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL IN FERRARA: TWO MEMBERS OF THE CAMPANA FAMILY
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.2 In the second half of the 18th century, a new awareness in education started to rise, placing greater importance on veterinary science. We are talking about a hundred years of history. Antonio Campana and Tommaso Bonaccioli, grandsons of Barbara Campana, were the creators of the Veterinary School of Ferrara in their own right. Among the teachers, we especially remember the first, Luigi Le Roy of the Lyon school. This Veterinary School, founded in 1762, was the place to train teachers for the upcoming schools around Europe. Antonio Campana was an eclectic scientist who also stood out in this discipline. Tommaso Bonaccioli, who studied at the School of Milan during the Napoleonic era, was highly regarded among foreign researchers for being a pioneer in this field. This can be proven by numerous publications and lectures at the Academy of Sciences in Ferrara, where he also served as president. His collaborators were able to keep the highest standards by continuing the founder’s work. Unfortunately, despite the appreciation of the students, the Veterinary School of Ferrara was closed in 1880 due to a lack of funding. The search for unpublished original documentation was conducted in the Historical Archives (Municipal, Ariostea Municipal Library, Academy of Sciences and University of Ferrara).
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: Antonio Campana
  topic: keywords
subject: Tommaso Bonaccioli
  topic: keywords
subject: Veterinary School
  topic: keywords
subject: Ferrara
  topic: keywords
creator: Chiara Beatrice Vicentini
creator: Lorenzo Altieri
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 37
ending page: 55

PURGATORY, ICONIZATION OF SUFFERING, AND DEVOTIONAL ASPECTS
type: item
description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.1 Purgatory is a relatively recent theological innovation in the geography of the otherworld. It was associated with a different vision of death centred on the fear of bodily corruption and body-soul dialogue, and a distinctive attitude towards the macabre. Since its affirmation, Purgatory appeared as an in-between, transitory dimension closely connected with the earth, where purging souls were allowed to dialogue with the living, as if they could prolong their earthly life there. Combining pain with the wait for liberation in Heaven, Purgatory was therefore an intermediate place of both suffering and hope for the coveted bliss. The settlement of Purgatory had the effect of reducing the fear of eternal damnation, and therefore, the terror of Hell was replaced by that of one’s own death and the consequent decomposition of one’s body. The cult of Purgatory spread in the 17th century, based on the possibility of relieving the suffering of the dead through the suffrages of the living. This article is about the beliefs, themes, and customs related to Purgatory, focusing above all on the numerous pieces of evidence coming from Naples, where the worship of Purgatory was particularly intense and took on peculiar characteristics. An attempt is made to analyse the most popular aspects of the cult and the testimonies concerning it, which today remain represented by persistent traces of the cult of the skulls, the presence of urban votive shrines, and modern funerary practices based on double burial.
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: Purgatory
  topic: keywords
subject: cult of the dead
  topic: keywords
subject: cult of souls in Purgatory
  topic: keywords
subject: Gisleni's tomb
  topic: keywords
subject: Triumph of Death
  topic: keywords
subject: transi tomb
  topic: keywords
subject: double burial
  topic: keywords
subject: votive shrines
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcello Guarino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2026-03-04
publication date: 2026-03-04
starting page: 9
ending page: 35

Luko Stulli i njegovo oduševljenje cijepljenjem u kontekstu recentne pandemije koronavirusom
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.5 U kontekstu recentne pandemije koronavirusom htjeli smo istaknuti važnost cijepljenja kao jedno od najvećih medicinskih dostignuća i najučinkovitiju preventivnu mjeru u zaštiti populacije od zaraznih bolesti. O tome je prije više od dvjesto godina s ponosom i oduševljenjem pisao dubrovački pionir cijepljenja Luko Stulli, jedan od najpoznatijih liječnika u Dubrovniku početkom 19. stoljeća. Neposredno nakon otkrića vakcinacije i pod dojmom nove liječničke metode, napisao je 1804. latinsku poemu Vaccinatio, carmen elegiacum (Vakcinacija, elegijska pjesma). Riječ je vjerojatno o jednoj od rijetkih pjesama posvećenoj medicinskoj temi u hrvatskoj književnosti i jednoj od posljednjih pisanih na latinskom jeziku. Do sada su bila pronađena tri originalna tiskana primjerka, a nedavno je pronađen i četvrti primjerak tiskan 1828. Recentna događanja vezana uz pandemiju COVID-19 ponovno su pobudila i usmjerila zanimanje na Stullijevu Elegiju, stavila u fokus rasprave i mišljenja o cijepljenju i karanteni te iznova potvrdila vrijednost i univerzalnost Stullijevih stavova i poruka iskazanih u ovoj latinskoj poemi u duhu klasicističke poetike i kanona. Prošlo je točno 220 godina od tiskanja Elegije, a sumnje u vrijednosti i korisnost znanstvenih otkrića nisu nestale, kao ni nepovjerenje u medicinsku znanost i cijepljene kao civilizacijski doseg.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: cijepljenje
  topic: keywords
subject: javno zdravstvo
  topic: keywords
subject: Luka Stulli
  topic: keywords
subject: Elegija
  topic: keywords
subject: COVID-19 pandemija
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creator: Ana Bakija-Konsuo
creator: Ankica Džono Boban
creator: Katja Bakija
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 273
ending page: 286

Evolucija sepse kroz evoluciju mikroorganizama
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.4 Pojam sepse povezuje se s modernom medicinom, ali sam koncept seže daleko u prošlost. Stoljećima je bila inspiracija za gotovo sve vrste umjetnosti, vjerno oslikavajući težinu stanja koje izaziva, strah i visoku smrtnost koja ju prati u stopu. Unatoč različitim stilovima života, čovječanstvo već tisućama godina obolijeva od sepse. U početku se na nju gledalo kao na neizbježan ishod teških bolesti, bez mogućnosti izlječenja. Taj se pristup promijenio tek u 20. stoljeću zahvaljujući eksponencijalnom napretku dijagnostičkih metoda i terapije. Povijesno niska javna i profesionalna svijest o sepsi dovela je do toga da je dugo bila “tihi ubojica”. Moderna medicina nastoji raznim mjerama spriječiti nastanak infekcija i provesti liječenje odgovarajućom terapijom. Usprkos tome mikroorganizmi drže korak s čovjekom i jednostavnim, a brzim prilagodbama uspjeli su razviti značajnu otpornost na antibiotike. Antimikrobna rezistencija jedan je od vodećih problema današnje medicine. U ovom su radu prikazane značajne prekretnice u povijesti septičnih stanja i evolucija prema postantibiotskoj eri. Brz napredak u dijagnostičkim i terapijskim mogućnostima baca novo svjetlo na prirodu sepse, ali u praksi još uvijek čini vrlo malo za oboljele. Sveobuhvatan pogled u prošlost mogao bi pomoći u pronalaženju odgovora na još uvijek neriješena pitanja vezana uz ovu bolest.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: sepsa
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subject: zarazne bolesti
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subject: bakterijska rezistencija
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creator: Dinko Paulić
creator: Maja Bogdan
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 261
ending page: 272

A Balanced Diet for a Choleric Man in Early Modern England
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.2 In the early modern period, dietary practice was widely understood through humoral theory, which held that health depended on maintaining balance among the four bodily humours. This article examines dietary advice for individuals identified as choleric, characterized by an excess of yellow bile associated with heat and dryness, within sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medical thought. Building on previous studies of humoral balance and the melancholic constitution, the article explores how physicians and health writers adapted classical and medieval dietetic principles to manage the heat and dryness characteristic of choler. Drawing on English popular health manuals and herbals, the article outlines explicit dietary prescriptions formulated within a Galenic framework to temper physiological and emotional excess. The study also considers how these medical recommendations intersect with contemporary culinary practice through an analysis of printed English cookbooks. While medical texts articulated overtly therapeutic dietary regimes, culinary sources rarely framed recipes in medical terms. Nevertheless, many recipes produced forms of balance that aligned with humoral expectations. The article argues that this convergence reflects a shared cultural logic of moderation, shaped by the long transmission of Hippocratic and Galenic dietetic ideas, rather than deliberate medical intent in cooking.
subject: Preliminary Communication
  topic: section
subject: balanced diet
  topic: keywords
subject: choleric temperament
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subject: dietary regimen
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subject: humoral theory
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subject: early modern cookbooks
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creator: Andrzej Kuropatnicki
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 223
ending page: 239

Pediatric Surgery in 19th-Century Greece: A Historical Analysis of Theodoros Aretaios’s Case Records
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.7 The historical examination of pediatric surgery in the 19th century, particularly through the cases managed by Theodoros Aretaios (1829–1893), underscores the complexities and challenges faced by surgeons of that era. Aretaios’s experiences with conditions such as atresia and osteosarcoma reveal a lack of specialization in pediatric surgery, as procedures were often adapted from adult practices without fully addressing the unique needs of children. His documentation highlights not only the medical difficulties but also the social implications of treating life-threatening conditions in young patients, emphasizing the evolution of surgical practices and the necessity for a more child-centered approach in modern medicine. This paper aims to shed light on the development of pediatric surgical care, illustrating how historical practices inform contemporary understandings and methodologies.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: Pediatric surgery
  topic: keywords
subject: Theodoros Aretaios
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subject: 19th century
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subject: Greek surgery
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creator: Konstantinos Laios
creator: Pavlos Lytsikas – Sarlis
creator: Constantinos G. Zografos
creator: Irina Noskova
creator: Dimitrios Zisiadis
creator: Konstantinos G. Apostolou
creator: Gregory Tsoucalas
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 299
ending page: 312

2nd International Conference on the History of Health
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description: Scientific meeting review
subject: Book review
  topic: section
creator: Mojca Ramšak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 357
ending page: 359

ON KANT’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE COOPERATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE THROUGH EXAMPLES OF REASON AND BODY
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description: Guest Editorial
subject: Kant and history of medicine
  topic: section
creator: Franjo Mijatović
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 293
ending page: 297

ŞEREFFEDDIN SABUNCUOĞLU (1386–147?)
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.6 Şereffeddin Sabuncuoğlu was a skilled surgeon from the early Ottoman period (15th century) in the Anatolian city of Amasya. He was a physician, surgeon, trainer, scientist, miniature artist, calligrapher, and the author of three significant books in addition to four other known manuscripts. In this study, unlike the previous historical clinical articles about him focused only on certain chapters he had written in his book ‘Imperial Surgery’, we have tried to focus on his whole life, including his personal experiences and things happening in his immediate environment.
subject: Review article
  topic: section
subject: Şereffeddin Sabuncuoğlu, Cerrahiyetü’l-Hanniye, Ottoman Medical History, Ottoman physician, Amasya Darüşşifa
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creator: Ayhan Verit
creator: Tuncay Toprak
creator: Fatma Ferda Verit
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 261
ending page: 270

Prostitucija i venerične bolesti u Dubrovniku za vrijeme Velikoga rata (1914. – 1918.)
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.2.1 U članku se na temelju arhivskoga gradiva dubrovačke bolnice fonda „Bolnica – nesređena građa” Državnog arhiva u Dubrovniku obrađuje pitanje oboljelih od spolnih zaraznih bolesti tijekom Prvoga svjetskog rata. Dubrovačko je društvo 19. stoljeća za visok porast oboljelih od spolnih bolesti okrivljavalo postojanje neinstitucionalizirane prostitucije. Nastanak javnih kuća trebao je dovesti do kontrole bolesti. Početkom Prvoga svjetskog rata, porastom broja vojnika i blizinom crnogorskog ratišta, povećava se broj oboljelih od spolnih bolesti. Značaj spolnih prenosivih bolesti u ratnim uvjetima posebno je važan i utječe na rezultate ratnog sukoba. Stoga vojne vlasti pokušavaju raznim preventivnim mjerama kontrolirati epidemiju spolnih prenosivih bolesti. Među spolnim bolestima posebno se izdvajaju sifilis i gonoreja. Bolnički kapaciteti nisu bili dovoljni za sve oboljele od sifilisa i povremeno je bolnica blokirala prijam oboljelih.
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: Prvi svjetski rat
  topic: keywords
subject: prostitucija
  topic: keywords
subject: spolne bolesti
  topic: keywords
subject: dubrovačka bolnica
  topic: keywords
subject: Dubrovnik
  topic: keywords
creator: Antun Car
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2026-04-20
publication date: 2026-04-20
starting page: 209
ending page: 222

RENAISSANCE ANATOMIST JACOPO BERENGARIO DA CARPI
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.1 In general, Vesalius (1514–1564) is considered a pioneer in the study of anatomy. However, he had several important predecessors whose contributions are considered fundamental to the history of anatomy. Amongst these pre-Vesalian anatomists, Jacopo Berengario da Carpi (c. 1460–1530) is widely acknowledgedas the most important one, and by some scholars even as the first ever anatomist. Berengario was the first anatomist who recognized the value and importance of anatomical illustrations for text comprehension. Our analysis is based on his works “Carpi Commentaria super anatomiaMundini” (1521) and “Isagogae breves” (1522). In contrast to Vesalius, who attempted to put into practice only Latin nomenclature, Berengario da Carpi had no ambition to reform anatomical terminology or purge it from “barbaric” terms. He just adopted the most widely used terms of his time, no matter their Latin, Greek, or Arabic origin. His work titled Isagogae contains an important list of all relevant terms used in the text, which serves as a historical record of the anatomical nomenclature used in his period. All this establishes the historical legacy of his work, which contributed to the development of anatomical terminology.This is why, from the current perspective of a medical school anatomy teacher, Berengario’s conviction about the need not only to read a textbook but also to see anatomical structures with one’s own eyes is relevant even in the third millennium.
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: anatomical terminology, Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, renaissance medicine, pre-Vesalian anatomists, analysis of anatomical terms
  topic: keywords
creator: Nora Malinovská
creator: Mária Bujalková
creator: Yvetta Mellová
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 187
ending page: 202

MOMENTS FROM THE LIFE OF IULIU BARASCH (1815–1863)
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.4 In 1842, at a time when Romanian society was taking its first steps towards modernization, a Jewish man from Galicia chose to settle in Wallachia. This man was a physician with a medical degree in “medicine and surgery” obtained at the University of Berlin, spoke two widely spoken European languages (French and German), and was concerned with diverse areas of knowledge, such as philosophy, natural sciences, law, and more. As an ethnic Jew, he made a remarkable career in Wallachia. He was a physician in the country’s medical service, professor, hospital director, journalist, and philanthropist. He founded the first children’s hospital in the country and two influential newspapers. He campaigned for the political rights of Wallachian Jews and the modernization of the synagogue cult. He gave public conferences in the country and abroad and translated and wrote several books. The physician’s name was Iuliu Barasch, and this study tries to reconstruct his life and medical activity between 1842 and 1863 in Wallachia, a period marked by social unrest, revolution, war, and cholera epidemics, but also unionist actions, political and social reforms. For this reconstruction, I researched documentary material in archives, the press of the time, journals, memoirs, and specialized literature.
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: Iuliu Barasch, Wallachia, biography, diseases, children’s hospital, quarantine
  topic: keywords
creator: Lidia Trausan-Matu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 233
ending page: 249

HYPOCHONDRIA AS A DISTRACTION OF THE REASON WITHIN KANT'S TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.10 The primary aim of this paper will be to understand hypochondria as a philosophical problem, rather than a medical-psychological one, since there is a significant difference between the modern (medical-psychological in the true sense of the word) understanding of hypochondria and all earlier anthropological, philosophical, and physiological understandings, including that of Kant. Kant's interpretation of hypochondria, as a mental illness, highlights an interesting dichotomy between actual bodily sensations and distorted perception. The hypochondriac experiences real physical sensations but interprets them in a way that is not grounded in actuality. Kant argues that these sensations result from the (lack of) attention the hypochondriac gives to certain physical signals. On the other hand, if one were to focus their attention on something else or engage in activities that distract their thoughts from pathological feelings, the feelings could diminish, and with enough composure, even disappear entirely. One of the key problems with hypochondria is that rational arguments often cannot change the beliefs of a person who feels symptoms in their body and mind. In order for a person to regain control over themselves, Kant turns to the principles of moral and philosophical dietetics. Therefore, this paper will specifically follow two aspects: Kant's scattered analysis of hypochondria and its transcendental philosophical assumptions. Conclusions from transcendental philosophy should help in overcoming hypochondriac whims.
subject: Kant and history of medicine
  topic: section
subject: Kant, hypochondria, sense, sensation, perception, imagination, reason
  topic: keywords
creator: Franjo Mijatović
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 329
ending page: 355

THE KNOWABILITY OF BIOMEDICAL LAWS
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.8 In this paper, I focus on the knowability of empirical laws in Kant. Specifically, I explore the interpretative thread according to which the knowability of an item is secured through an appropriate classification within a hierarchical ordering.The relationship between the knowability and classification is ultimately based on Kant’s characterization of our understanding as being “discursive”, i.e., relying on subsuming-procedures. More specifically, the focus is on empirical laws referring to biological phenomena broadly construed, which are interestingly intertwined with the teleology-mechanism specific relationship. “Critique of the Power of Judgment” and related Kant’s works, thus, address the class of teleological judgments and/or functional statements that should also have the status of a law of nature. I argue that the knowability of generally biological laws equally relies on subsuming-procedures, which in the life sciences, that is, primarily, biology plus its application to medical practices, consist in an explanatory integration between normative teleological judgments and those causal-mechanical. Finally, I try to clarify how a Kantian take on these issues fits within the current function debate: namely, in what way it acknowledges the explanatory and normative dimensions of function statements as they contribute to the practice of the life sciences.
subject: Kant and history of medicine
  topic: section
subject: knowability issue, reflecting power of judgment, discursive intellect, function debate, explanatory integration, teleological normativity, biomedical methodological landscape
  topic: keywords
creator: Predrag Šustar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 299
ending page: 313

KANT'S CONCEPT OF HEALTH AS AN INTERACTION OF MIND AND BODY
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.9 This paper examines Kant's concept of the health under four aspects. Part 1: Kant speaks of health primarily in terms of common sense (gesunder Menschenverstand) and healthy reason (gesunde Vernunft). The concept of health is therefore mainly an epistemological concept. Part 2: Health then stands in the context of disease. For Kant, disease is always linked to a lack of cognitive capacity. Kant’s thoughts on disease and health can be found above all in his late writings "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" (1798) and "The Conflict of the Faculties" (1798). The early work "Essay on the Maladies of the Head" (1764) and a speech on "On Philosophers‘ Medicine of the Body" (1786) should also be included. Since health is primarily in the context of cognition, mental illnesses are at the centre of Kant's work. Part 3: Kant repeatedly presents his own state of health as an example. When Kant wrote his own "dietetics" in response to Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's "Macrobiotics or The Art of Prolonging Human Life", it becomes clear that the attainment of physical health is also linked to mental health. After all, we can speak of psychosomatics. Part 4: For Kant, the preservation of health is also the task of the government. This political dimension of health is evident in Kant’s writings. This discovery of psychosomatics is part of a medical-historical context that originated with Kant, among others, and which has not yet been sufficiently researched
subject: Kant and history of medicine
  topic: section
subject: Kant
  topic: keywords
subject: Health
  topic: keywords
subject: Disease
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychosomatics
  topic: keywords
creator: Annette Sell
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA
date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 315
ending page: 328

SLOVENIAN INFLUENCE IN EARLY 18TH CENTURY INOCULATIONS
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description: https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.2 In 1715, two Slovenian physicians, Johann Baptist Werloschnig de Perenberg and Antonius Loigk, published an extensive volume on the last plague epidemic in Central Europe. Hidden within its pages is a description of smallpox inoculation, which predates any record of this procedure in Europe by several years. The procedure was personally witnessed by Loigk in Vienna in or before 1714. Very little is currently known about the context of this event. We do not know how many inoculators there were, how many patients were treated and, crucially, how the procedure was received by the medical establishment in Austria. All these pieces of information would be necessary to understand the impact of this discovery on early 18th-century Austrian (and, by extension, Eastern European) society. In order to sketch out the possible connections, we will focus on a reconstruction of the intellectual network of both Slovenians as it appears in the academic literature of the time. We hope that these links may reveal something about a group of physicians who may have had early knowledge about this important anti-epidemic measure.
subject: Original scientific paper
  topic: section
subject: smallpox, inoculation, variolation, Slovenia, early modern period
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creator: Karel Černý
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date: 2025-03-20
publication date: 2025-03-20
starting page: 203
ending page: 219