Mal de Meleda: from legend to reality.
Luca Stulli of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), 1772-1828, was one of the first to make epidemiologic studies of heritable skin disorders. His treatise of what became the 'mal de Meleda' on the Adriatic island of Mljet (Meleda) is a classic in the dermatologic literature. The present study documents his life, his birth record, his portrait and recalls his original publication (in Italian).
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Department for the History of Medicine, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia.
Holubar
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D017523:Croatia; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007645:Keratoderma, Palmoplantar / Q000266:history*