Konstantinos Laios, Pavlos Lytsikas-Sarlis, Constantinos G Zografos, Irina Noskova, Dimitrios Zisiadis, Konstantinos G Apostolou, Gregory Tsoucalas
{"title":"Pediatric Surgery in 19th-Century Greece: A Historical Analysis of Theodoros Aretaios's Case Records","authors":"Konstantinos Laios, Pavlos Lytsikas-Sarlis, Constantinos G Zografos, Irina Noskova, Dimitrios Zisiadis, Konstantinos G Apostolou, Gregory Tsoucalas","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.2.7","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"299-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prostitution and Venereal Diseases in Dubrovnik During the First World War (1914–1918)","authors":"Antun Car","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.2.1","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article examines the issue of people suffering from sexually transmitted diseases during the First World War, based on the archival material from Dubrovnik hospital found in the State Archives’ “Hospital – unsettled material” fund. In the 19th century, Dubrovnik society blamed the existence of non-institutionalized prostitution for the high increase in individuals suffering from venereal diseases. The emergence of brothels was intended to lead to disease control. At the beginning of the First World War, with the number of soldiers increasing and the proximity to the Montenegrin battlefield, there was a rise in the incidence of venereal diseases. The significance of sexually transmitted diseases in war conditions is particularly important and affects the results of the war conflict. Therefore, the military authorities try to control the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases with various preventive measures. Syphilis and gonorrhea stand out among sexually transmitted diseases. Hospital capacities were not sufficient for all syphilis patients, and occasionally the hospital blocked the admission of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"209-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prvih devedeset godina Jurja Sepčića: otok, gradovi, sveučilište, kolege i prijatelji u čast Jurja Sepčića - neurologa i čovjeka boljeg od svoga vremena","authors":"Toni Buterin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Meeting review/ Prikaz skupa.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"323-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Bakija-Konsuo, Ankica Džono Boban, Katja Bakija
{"title":"Luko Stulli and His Endorsement of Vaccination in the Context of the Recent Coronavirus Pandemic","authors":"Ana Bakija-Konsuo, Ankica Džono Boban, Katja Bakija","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.2.5","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the context of the recent coronavirus pandemic, we wanted to highlight the importance of vaccination as one of the greatest medical achievements and the most effective preventive measure for protecting the population from infectious diseases. Over 200 years ago, the pioneer of vaccination in Dubrovnik, Luko Stulli, one of the most renowned physicians of the early 19th century, proudly and enthusiastically wrote about it. Immediately after the discovery of vaccination and inspired by this new medical method, he wrote a Latin poem in 1804 titled “Vaccinatio, carmen elegiacum” (Vaccination, an elegiac poem). This is probably one of the few poems in Croatian literature dedicated to a medical theme, and one of the last written in Latin. So far, three original printed copies have been found, and recently a fourth, printed in 1828, was discovered. Recent events related to the COVID-19 pandemic have once again sparked interest in Stulli’s Elegy, brought it into focus in discussions of vaccination and quarantine, and reaffirmed the value and universality of the views and messages expressed in this Latin poem, written in the spirit of classical poetics and the canon. Exactly 220 years have passed since the printing of the Elegy, yet doubts about the value and usefulness of scientific discoveries have not disappeared, nor has the distrust in medical science and vaccination as a civilizational achievement.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"273-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of Sepsis Through the Evolution of Microbes","authors":"Dinko Paulić, Maja Bogdan","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.2.4","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p></p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"261-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Balanced Diet for a Choleric Man in Early Modern England","authors":"Andrzej Kuropatnicki","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.2.2","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"223-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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","authors":"Marko Medved","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Book review/ Prikaz knjige.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 2","pages":"313-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147784580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The history of Polish pharmacy museums in the context of European museology","authors":"Wojciech Ślusarczyk, Łukasz Pigoński","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"121-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Održan skup u čast umirovljenom profesoru Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci Anti Škrobonji povodom 80. godišnjice života","authors":"Marko Medved","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prikaz skupa/ Scientific meeting review</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"185-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}