title: Contribution to the history of plastic and reconstructive surgery from Dubrovnik and split during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
abstract: Medieval contracts for medical treatment are, without doubt, evidence of proper and adequate insight into the quality of operations performed centuries ago. Historical archives in Dalmatian cities have preserved a certain number of such contracts. Their contents assist in better understanding our historical heritage. This paper submits contracts, kept in Dubrovnik and Split, for the operation of inguinal hernia. A case depicting a defective palate treated by Amatus Lusitanus, who lived in Dubrovnik from 1555 to 1558, is also presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, General Hospital, R. Misetica b.b., 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bacic
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skrobolja
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kojic
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Polanda-Bacic
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic / Q000266:history; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000266:history*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000266:history*