Review article
STANKO KRSTIC (1911-1995) AND HIS CONTRIBUTION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS IN CROATIA
Ivica Vučak
Mladen Janeček
Abstract
Surgical procedures were the main means in the hands of phthyseologists
when Stanko Krstid joined antituberculosis movement in
Croatia in the forties of the last century. His teachers have saved lives
of their patients but frequently with severe consequences, leaving
those who survived, heavily invalidated. Later he participated actively
in mass-radiofluorografic screening campaigns and in BCG vaccination.
He has witnessed the significance of the efficient antituberculotics,
as well as the disappointment caused by the rapid development
of resistance to them. His numerous articles prove that his approach
to his work with patients was always critical and open-minded. He
has seen the falling of the tuberculosis from the first place on the
mortality list as well as on the morbidity list in Croatia. For him that
was a sign to pulmology snd pulmologists to turn toward new challenges
under the conditions of the changed national pathology.
Keywords
tuberculosis; history of medicine; 20th century; Croatia; Slovenia
Hrčak ID:
102606
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2004.
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