title: [Life and work of Dr. Bozo Pericić (1865-1947), genius of our medicine].
abstract: The paper describes the life and work of on of our most distinguished physicians--Dr Bozo Pericić. Togheter with another young physician Dr Nikola Lalić the Sibenik hospital became a sort of Meca for medical people. Dr Pericić succeded to clarify an unknown disease--so called "Skrljevo disease", paved the path of to the knowledge about achinococcus etc. He published also number of valuable medical articles and books and avarded a number af aknowledgements. One of the biggest was his nomination for membership of the Supreme Haelth Council in Wienna. He contributed e lot to the medical journals, especially to the "Physician's Journal". As person of wide culture, famous linguist and polyglot Dr Pericić published the "Medical dictionary of Croatian and German Language". He lay foundation of the craniology, quite a new branch of arheology at the time. His accounts of travels, reviews on famous writers, translation of Hamlet, etc--are valuable literary works.
authors.affiliation: Znanstvena jedinica Opće bolnice Zadar.
authors.forename: Slavko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perović
authors.forename: Stjepan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sirovica
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000266:history*