Igor Eterović, Toni Buterin, Juraj Sepčić, Amir Muzur, Robert Doričić
{"title":"Pharmacy on Cres: fragments of the history of the profession and culture","authors":"Igor Eterović, Toni Buterin, Juraj Sepčić, Amir Muzur, Robert Doričić","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first reports about the pharmacy in Cres date back to the 15th century. As early as 1431, the mayor of Cres dealt with the issue of procuring medicines, and from the end of the century until modern times, the minutes of the Cres Municipal Council discuss obtaining pharmacy licenses, as well as pharmacists’ salaries and disputes. For a long time, pharmacists were immigrants from Istria and Italy who would stay in Cres for a shorter or longer period. As a result, from the 19th century, pharmacy was settled in the hands of the Colombis and Rossi families. After the Second World War, Ljekarna Cres became part of the Rijeka company Ljekarna Jadran.\u0000Analysing sources and literature, this contribution aims to shed light on the rich yet insufficiently known history of a profession that simultaneously reveals no less interesting fragments of everyday life and culture in Cres.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"167-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402292","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":"Bone fractures and their treatment in ancient Egypt based on the Edwin-Smith papyri","authors":"Zlatko Đukić, Robert Stubičar","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ancient Egypt refers to the area along the Nile River where the Ancient Egyptian civilisation developed. As a state creation, Egypt was the place of many firsts, including architecture, art, economy, and science. Over time, within the priestly class in Egypt, priests began to appear who devoted their lives to different sciences, primarily astronomy, astrology, but also medicine. Ancient Egyptian medicine will be the focus of this paper, together with the diagnostic procedures, methods, and different ways of treating bone fractures, which will all be presented in more detail throughout the paper. Despite the fact that the paper will discuss extremely old historical periods, sources for this topic can be found in ancient Egyptian papyri that have survived to the present day. This is why the Edwin-Smith Papyrus, which is a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian medical science, should be highlighted. Also, since the Egyptian religion was deeply ingrained in Egyptian society, it should not be surprising that numerous medical procedures and remedies can be found in the magical texts/incantations that the ancient priests would recite during the process of treating a patient. This paper will first briefly present ancient Egyptian medicine in general, then its close connection with religion and magic, and finally, the diagnostics, methods, and interventions used by ancient doctors to treat bone fractures of their patients as described in the Edwin-Smith Papyrus.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"57-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402350","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":"Purgatory, iconization of suffering, and devotional aspects","authors":"Marcello Guarino","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.31952/amha.23.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"9-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402319","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":"Dr Avelin Roblek, city physician in Bjelovar and Ljubljana","authors":"Dubravko Habek","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents the public health work of Dr Avelin Roblek (1845–1889) through his professional path as a city physician in Bjelovar and Ljubljana, within the framework of medicine in our region at the end of the 19th century. Dr Roblek graduated from the medical faculty in Graz in 1874, after which he worked in Ljubljana and for three years in Litija. From 1882 to 1888, he served as the city physician and primary physician of the county hospital in Bjelovar and then, until his untimely death, the city physician in Ljubljana. The functions of the city physician in the second half of the 19th century in the then Austrian Empire were mostly public health: anti-epidemic measures, vaccinations, examinations and sanitary inspections of living conditions, control of prostitutes, coroners, and forensic autopsies, and control of the work of midwives and coroners. Dr Roblek regularly reported on the functions and the measures he implemented to the city magistrates in Bjelovar and Ljubljana. He died in Ljubljana after contracting a disease while performing his work as a physician.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"107-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402056","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 pharmacy heritage is all around us","authors":"Marin Pintur","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guest Editorial</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"117-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402243","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 creators of the veterinary school in Ferrara: two members of the Campana family","authors":"Chiara Beatrice Vicentini, Lorenzo Altieri","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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).</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"37-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402234","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 influence of the development of psychiatric thought on the classification of personality disorders in the 19th century","authors":"Zvonimir Paštar","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents the development of psychiatric thought during the long nineteenth century in Europe and Croatia, where the development of the classification of personality disorders is presented in more detail. This diagnostic category is on the border between mentally healthy and ill, which most vividly opens essential questions in psychiatric science. These questions were and remain the subject of scientific research in psychiatry, and they gained their foundations and momentum in the long nineteenth century, which is reflected in the fruitful activity of a large number of doctors and scientists of that time, from France, England, through Italy to Austria and Germany. The article also shows the contribution of Croatian doctors, especially Dr. Ivo Žirovčić, as the long-term director of the first psychiatric hospital in Croatia, in laying the foundations of Croatian psychiatry, the development of which was belatedly, but greatly accelerated by the opening of the Institute for the Mentally Ill in Stenjevac, today’s University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"81-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402315","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":"Fighting AIDS in Portugal: the responses of public health authorities (1983–2000)","authors":"Paula Basso","doi":"10.31952/amha.23.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"141-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402079","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":"Biennial Conference of the European Association of History of Medicine and Health: Health Beyond Medicine (Berlin, 26-29 August 2025)","authors":"Mojca Ramšak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scientific meeting review</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"23 1","pages":"189-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402398","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":"SLOVENIAN INFLUENCE IN EARLY 18TH CENTURY INOCULATIONS","authors":"Karel Černý","doi":"10.31952/amha.22.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.22.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":42656,"journal":{"name":"Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica","volume":"22 2","pages":"203-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053029","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}