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Z Vuković

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[Anniversaries of the Serbian Medical Society, 1962: 90 years since the founding of the Society and its realization and recognition].

The 90th anniversary of the Serbian Medical Association was celebrated at the end of a period that surpassed the previous achievements of the Association--a system of medical protection was built, medical schools in Nish and Novi Sad were founded, and new medical institutions were erected. The construction of a system of medical protection was linked to the "social system, which in itself provides further development of the system in the direction of encompassing the total population". One could also detect in this intention an uncritical transfer of the concept of the National Health Service of Great Britain, when the requirements, health conditions and aging of the population were not similar to the present population. The Managing Board of the Serbian Medical Association of that time founded the Section of general practitioners and proposed the introduction of specialization of general medicine. The jubilee is preceded by years in which new medical institutions were built and medical schools founded in Nish and Novi Sad. The role of some members of the Serbian Medical Association and of the Managing Board was prominent in some documents dating only a couple of decades after these events. Certain documents and monographs published in celebration of an anniversary of the School of Medicine or of some medical institutions no longer mention the role of the Association. This is also the case with a monograph published in celebration of the 45th Jubilee of the Institute of Mother and Child Health Protection. That monograph does not include the activties of the Association and the first resolution of the Serbian Medical Association after the liberation, in 1946, was related to the problem of medical protection of the young "as the most important task of popular medical policy". In the monograph about the foundation of the Medical School in Novi Sad, the only connection with the past is the mention of date when the Medical School was founded. The 90th anniversary of the Serbian Medical Association, when some of the members were honored for their contributions, is the only anniversary in the long history of the Association. In total 47 doctors were honored. On the same occasion the Serbian Medical Association honored 92 doctors with memorial plaque for the "contribution to the activity of the Association".

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[Anniversaries of the Serbian Medical Society].

The Serbian Medical Society was founded in Belgrade 125 years ago. At that time, Serbia was liberated from the Ottoman domination, and was one of some thirty existing independent states gaining international recognition in 1878. A group of physicians met in Belgrade on April 22, 1872, wishing to establish a medical association. Vladan Djordjevitsh, the most prominent among them, asked Dr. Valenta to explain the purpose of the meeting. Dr. Valenta explained the advantages of a medical association and proposed that they vote for the establishment of such an association in Serbia. There were barely a hundred physicians in Serbia at the time. They were of different nationalities: Serbs (44), Germans (16), Czechs (9), Poles (6), Croats (4), Greeks (3), Slovenes (3) and Hungarian (1). Members of the Serbian Medical Society used to stress "the great love of Belgrade and Serbian doctors for this country and its people". The physicians of the Serbian Medical Society have shared the fate of their people over the past 125 years. This is best illustrated by the fact that Serbia lost 1,247,000 people in World War I and that every third doctor in Serbia lost his life serving his people during the war. On the occasion of the 125 anniversary of foundation of the Serbian Medical Society the celebration of the first jubilee we described. It was a great celebration for the whole country in the presence of the King and Patriarch of the Serbian Church and most physicians from the country. This was a hard time for the country-people lived in poverity and infectious diseases dominated in pathology. The Serbian Medical Society initiated actions for preventing epidemies of infectious diseases and for improvement of health of the people through vaccination and better hygienic conditions. All the same time efforts were made by educated country health personel (midwives and medical assistants) in founding a medical school in Belgrade.

History, 19th Century↗