Review article
ON WEATHER; MEDICINE AND A WEATHER STAND: A HISTORY ECHOING INTO THE PRESENT
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić
Tatjana Buklijaš
Abstract
Stimulated by an increase in the number of reports on heat-related mortality in August
2003; we wanted to show the role and significance of weather-related factors in medical
practice throughout the history. Climatic factors were incorporated in main medical
concepts such humoral; miasmatic; or constitutional; they were applied in therapeutical
approaches and in the formation of some medical disciplines only to end up discarded
in favour of evidence-based medicine. Here we deal with typical examples; significant
for Croatia; with an emphasis on a weather stand? set up by Adolf Holzer
(1834–1885); a military and spa physician; in Zagreb in 1884.
Keywords
weather reports; history of human health; history of meteorology; meteorological factors; Zagreb; Croatia; climate change; environmental health
Hrčak ID:
101762
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2004.
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