Croatian scientific society for the history of health culture
Abstract
This paper presents and comments on an annual report by lvan
Krstitelj Andriani6, the chief physician of the sanitary region of
Crikvenica (North-Croatian littoral) for the year 1859 . Beside interesting
and very precise medico-historical data, the report is an excellent
source for demographic, ethnographic, and cultural-anthropological
considerations within this particular time and space frame