Ginekologija, porodništvo i primaljstvo u Hrvatskoj između dvaju svjetskih ratova

Abstract

Gynecology and obstetrics, as a unique profession, developes in Croatia only at the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to Professor Franjo Dust, the director of the Country Maternity Hospital (Zemaljsko rodilište) and Midwifery School (Primaljsko učilište) in Zagreb (established in 1877). Professor Dust later founded the Clinic for Women's Diseases and Labours of the Zagreb Medical School (1921). The oldest autonomous gynecological and obstetrical departments in Croatia are the ones in Pula (1905 and in the Zagreb Endowment
Hospital (1925), but they were extinguished in the 1930s as such, the gynecology being attached to surgery. Between the two World Wars, autonomous gynecological and obstetrical departments were established in Split (1919), Šibenik (1927), Osijek (1932), in the Mercury's Sanatorium in Zagreb (1934), in Sušak (I935), and in
the Zagreb Hospital of Charitable Sisters (Bolnica milosrdnih sestara) in 1941. The first head of such a department in Sušak was Dr. Milan Berger (1936-1942), who from 1928 until 1936 had worked as assistent
to Professor Durst in the Clinic for Women's Diseases and Labours in Zagreb. From 1945 until 1947 and from 1950 until 1953, Dr. Berger acted as a department head in the Zagreb Hospital of Charitable Sisters (Dr. Mladen Stojanović General Hospital, respectfully), while from I947 until 1950, he headed a department in Pula.
In the period between 1953 and 1973, Dr. Berger worked in the Zagreb Gynecological and Obstetrical Clinic, which he headed from 1967 till 1969 as a university professor.