Review article
A survey of the history of health care in Zadar
Neven Skitarelić
; General Hospital Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Robert Nezirović
; General Hospital Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Nataša Skitarelić
; General Hospital Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The paper offers a survey of the history of health care in Zadar and wider Zadar area throughout centuries. Based on modern historiographic data, the authors present the development of care for the sick and infirm there since the earliest days. In Roman era, there already were individuals in Zadar who practiced Greek medicine of that time. Diverse medical instruments dating from that era and found in the Zadar area witness thereto. It is particularly noteworthy that the first quarantine hospital was opened in Zadar as early as in 1348, much earlier than it was the case in the Dubrovnik Republic and Venice. In 1806, the French established a school of medicine and surgery in Zadar; this school was at that time entirely identical with medical faculties. In 1821, the first School for Midwives in these lands, which were then under Austro-Hungarian reign, was opened. Furthermore, Zadar was the first city in which – in March 1847 – the first ever ether narcosis in the eastern part of Europe was administered. In 1878, the first organisation of the Red Cross in Croatia, then named Domoljubna gospojenska zadruga, was established there. Health care in our lands evidently developed in the course of centuries, following thereby modern achievements in European and world medicine throughout all historic epochs. During the Liberation War, it was of particular importance. The data presented in this paper are a tribute to the research of this part of the history of health care in Zadar.
Keywords
history of health care; Zadar; Zadar General Hospital; Liberation War
Hrčak ID:
170606
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Publication date:
15.12.2016.
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