title: Mal de Meleda: from legend to reality.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: Department for the History of Medicine, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fatović-Ferencić
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Holubar
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007645:Keratoderma, Palmoplantar / Q000266:history*