title: [Dr. Svetislav Sp. Barjaktarović--30 years later].
abstract: Doctor Svetislav Sp. Barjaktarovitsh (1893-1971), full professor of University School of Medicine in Belgrade, Head of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics since its foundation, Director of the University Teaching Hospital of Gynaecology and Obstetrics from 1937 to 1948, was dismissed from University for political reasons in December 1948. He was the author of classical gynaecological and obstetrics textbooks, popular books, as well as of fifty scientific papers published in domestic and foreign professional literature. While being the Director of the University Teaching Hospital of Gynaecology and Obstetrics he managed to raise money to start the building of a new hospital. He was engaged in experimental work and improved the diagnosis and therapy of genital tuberculosis, extrauterine pregnancy, adnexal inflammation, puerperal fever, etc. He was especially concerned with the determination of the child's sex before his/her birth. As a medical student he participated in the First World War working in the Company Hospital of the Morava Division. He was holder of the Albanian Commemorative Medal, The Cross of Mercy and other decorations.
authors.affiliation: Section of History of Medicine, Serbian Medical Society, Belgrade.
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jovanović-Simić
authors.forename: Budimir
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pavlović
mesh_terms: D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history*; D015022:Yugoslavia