PROF. DR. MIRO JURETIĆ – PEDIJATAR I POVJESNIČAR MEDICINE

Abstract

Croatia’s leading paediatrician, professor Miro Juretić (Split, Croatia, 8 Jan 1919 – Split, 13. Oct 2000) completed the grammar school in Split in 1937 and medical studies in Zagreb in 1942. As soon as he specialised in paediatrics in 1950, he became the head of the Cabinet for Child Diseases of the Central Navy Hospital in Split, and then, between 1961 and 1965 he ran the Children’s Ward of the General Hospital in Split. In 1965, he became the head of the Clinic for Child Diseases in Rijeka, where he also ran a genetic counselling service, and received assistant professorship at the Rijeka University School of Medicine, where he became associate professor in 1971 and full professor in 1976. He retired in 1981 and returned to Split, where he started a Spring School of Paediatrics from 1983 to 1991. As a medical historian, he was focused on the history of paediatrics and children’s health care in Croatia. He made an interesting review older Croatian literature on the subject of child care, and wrote about the history of breast-feeding. He set up a number of exhibitions which included old medical books, portraits of notable physicians, and their artworks.