Dr Ivo Sercer (Rakovac near Karlovac, 1892--Zagreb, 1959) graduated medical studies in Graz (1915) and specialized in ophthalmology. In April 1919 he was appointed head of the ophthalmology department of the City hospital in Subotica, where he worked until his death. Backa, a region spreading between the Danube and the Tisa, was one of Europe's major trachoma focal points and Subotica had an eye hospital ever since 1868. In that city a big City hospital with the medical, surgical and ophthalmological departments opened in 1897, and there Dr Sercer was very actively engaged. In addition to his hospital work Dr Sercer also ran a private practice, treated children in the Home for trachomatous children and worked as school clinic and health insurance ophthalmologist implementing the socio-medical programme for fighting trachoma devised by Dr Andrija Stampar. Regretfully, working outside the strict borders of his native country Dr Sercer has not received due recognition in the history of ophthalmology in Croatia.

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[The first Croatian medical dictionary of Dr. Ivan Dezman (on the 125th anniversary of publication)].

The year 1868 marked the publication of the first "Dictionary of Medical Terms" in the Croatian language, the work of the physician and writer Ivan Dezman (1841-1873) and one of the first professional dictionaries to appear in Croatia. In composing the dictionary Dezman made use of all the general Croatian language dictionaries which were available at the time, of the vernacular idioms as well as of the new words he coined himself. Although the dictionary was modest by volume, it comprised definitions for 3247 entries, its great value lied in the fact that is strongly influenced both the medical writing and future work on medical nomenclature.

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