Acta Medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA

 https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.1  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was the founder of the modern-day Turkish Republic. Although much has been published about his life, only one biography adopted a psychological/psychoanalytic perspective. The authors Vamık Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz argued that the main driving mechanism behind Atatürk's behavior was his narcissistic personality organization. Their framework considered Mustafa's birth, which occurred shortly after his elder brothers had passed away, and how his mother, presumably in a state of severe depression, could not provide adequate emotional care, which gave way to compensatory narcissistic tendencies in the child...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.2  Krajem 19. stoljeća unutar šibenske bolnice nalazilo se nahodište u kojem su zbrinjavana napuštena djeca prije njihova udomljavanja. U radu će se na temelju matičnih knjiga krštenih i umrlih pokrajinske bolnice u Šibeniku analizirati smještajni kapaciteti nahodišta u razdoblju od 1886. do 1900. godine. Provest će se analiza zaprimljene djece prema načinu dolaska u nahodište i stupnju poznatosti podrijetla, odnosno identiteta...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.3 The second half of the 19th century in Fiume (now Rijeka) was characterized by the expansion of industrial activity and trade, and the new wealth resulted in a dynamic social life. As a consequence, many new associations were founded in the city, including the Medical Association in Fiume (Associazione medica fiumana), which was established in 1901. The founding procedure was really fast. On January 10th, 1901, the founding committee delivered four samples of the Statute in Italian and one in Hungarian to the Municipality...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.4  Pandemija španjolske gripe, koja je na početku 20. stoljeća zahvatila gotovo cijeli svijet, smatra se najtežom i najopasnijom epidemijom. Nije zaobišla ni prostor Hrvatske (tada u sastavu Austro-Ugarske Monarhije,) pa tako ni njezinu južnu primorsku regiju Dalmaciju i grad Split. U radu se na primjeru grada Splita analiziraju prostorne i demografske odrednice smrtnosti stanovništva od španjolske gripe 1918. i 1919. (tj...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.5  U članku su u uvodnim napomenama navedeni osnovni podaci o zdravstvenim prilikama vezanim uz pojavu zaraznih bolesti te o mjerama koje su poduzimane za njihovo suzbijanje na području NDH. Potom se u sažetom pregledu opisuje djelovanje državnih zdravstvenih institucija u borbi sa zaraznim bolestima na slavonskom području, koliko se iz korištenih izvora moglo iščitati, te je stanje istraženosti ove teme i dalje slabo...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.6 Reviewing historical medical manuscripts shows that neurological disorders have been previously described in the Islamic Golden Age. Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna (980-1037 AD), was one of the most renowned scientists during this period. He widely practiced medicine, especially those disorders related to neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry in conventional medicine. In his extant book al-Qānūn fī al-Tibb (the Canon of Medicine), he claimed that some types of brain diseases can be related to the "marāqq" and called them marāqq-related disorders...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.7  Zbog neposredne blizine s Osmanskim Carstvom, u Slavoniji je postojala stalna opasnost od ulaska brojnih zaraznih i nezaraznih bolesti. Dodatna su otegotna okolnost bili loši životni i higijenski uvjeti, siromaštvo, suše i poplave. Odlaskom Osmanlija krajem 17. stoljeća zdravstvenu skrb pružala je tek nekolicina brijača i ranarnika, koji su ostali živjeti u slavonskom Provincijalu. Zbog loše zdravstvene zaštite, carica i kraljica Marija Terezija 1770...

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https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.8 Narodna ili pučka medicina tradicionalna je medicinska praksa u općoj populaciji, posebno ruralnoj. U narodnoj medicini koristili su se biljni lijekovi, kao i ljudske i životinjske supstan- cije te minerali. U liječenju očnih bolesti najčešće su se upotrebljavali lijekovi biljnog podri- jetla - kamilica, vidac i rosopas, zatim lijekovi ljudskog i životinjskog podrijetla - majčino mlijeko, slina, med, životinjska žuč, a od minerala bakreni sulfat...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.7 A complex epidemiological situation marked the health system at the time of the establi- shment of the Czechoslovak Republic. Reducing the number of infectious diseases was an essential task of the State Administration of Health. It required new legislation and various steps directed at reducing infectious diseases. Serious infectious diseases, such as scarlet fe- ver, diphtheria, typhoid, dysentery, smallpox, and malaria, were among the most significant health problems in Czechoslovakia...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.6 This paper provides an analysis of Andrija Štampar's activities after World War II on the establishment of effective international health. Analyzed archival materials have confir- med with numerous evidence that Štampar as the president of the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization (WHO) played a crucial role in the establishment of the ideological starting points and organization of the WHO system, which remain relevant to date. Apart from the strategic foundations, it has been shown that his principles regarding the need for practical action based on the best professional knowledge and experience have no alternatives...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.5 During the Interwar period (1918-1939), financial aid and technical assistance were given to countries worldwide by the League of Nations Health Organisation (LNHO) in an attempt to reform public health systems, address population health problems, and control infectious diseases. Greece was one of the countries that received this aid, and in 1928 cooperation with the LNHO was initiated. The aim of this alliance was an integrated health reform plan en- titled "Collaboration with the Greek government for the sanitary reorganization of Greece" and had a dual purpose: a) the reorganisation of the health services and b) the establishment of a unified public health system that provided comprehensive healthcare for all citizens...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.4 A complex epidemiological situation marked the health system at the time of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. Reducing the number of infectious diseases was an essential task of the State Administration of Health. It required new legislation and various steps directed at reducing infectious diseases. Serious infectious diseases, such as scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, dysentery, smallpox, and malaria, were among the most significant health problems in Czechoslovakia...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.3 During an excavation campaign in the Church of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Roccapelago (North Italy), a hidden crypt was discovered, which yielded the remains of more than 400 individuals. The crypt was used as a cemetery by the inhabitants of the village of Roccapelago between the 16th and 18th centuries. Along the north side of the crypt, an area apparently separated from the rest of the burials was found, bordered by stones, where several burials of newborns and infants were concentrated...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.2 This paper investigates the Latin works dealing with medicine and physicians, published in seventeenth-century Kraków. The main purpose of the research is to present the leading persons of academic medicine working in those times in this city and to follow through the se- lected works, which constitute a part of Neo-Latin literature in the Polish-Lithuanian Com- monwealth. The scholastic way of the discourse did not always mean overuse of the authori- ties, however both ancient and modern were being evoked...

https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.1.1 Galen was the first who defined phthisis as lung ulceration, accompanied by coughing, persi- stent low-grade fevers, and body wasting. Attempts to define tuberculosis and find the cause of the disease belong to significant errors in the period of medical theories about tuberculosis (TB). Even in the 17th century, the most common causes of this disease were pulmonary ul- cers, incorrect shape and position of the lungs, or menstruation. This article endeavors to elucidate the history of TB and its therapy in the 17th century on the basis of the Latin inau- gural academic disputation De phthisi (On Tuberculosis) from 1679, which was first transla- ted into Slovak in 2021...

In this paper, the first 20 years of publication of the scientific journal AMHA - Acta medi- co-historica Adriatica (2002-2022) are presented and analysed. This journal has undo- ubtedly become and remained the central activity of the Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture, which has rapidly evolved into a globally esteemed journal in the history of medicine. The beginning and the context of publishing the journal with reference to the scientific conference "Rijeka and Its Citizens in Medical History" are presented, as well as the journal's profiling into a distinguished international scientific journal, co-publishing with the Faculty of Medicine (University of Rijeka) and its fast development in the later ye- ars...

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