TY - JOUR A1 - Fureš, Rajko A1 - Habek, Dubravko A1 - Hrgović, Zlatko A1 - Fureš, Dora T1 - The role of John the Baptist Lalangue in the development of croatian public health and midwifery in the context of implementation of the imperial public health law from 1770 T2 - Acta clinica croatica N2 - To understand the development of public health in Croatia, there are newer insights into the life and work of John the Baptist Lalangue. John the Baptist Lalangue is most valued for implementation of the imperial law on public health and promotion of midwifery in Croatia during the second half of the 18th century. Lalangue is the author of the first printed medical textbook in Croatian, published in 1776, entitled Medicina ruralis iliti Vrachtva ladanyszka, za potrebochu musev, y sziromakov Horvatczkoga orszaga y okolu nyega, blisnesseh mest, Trattnern, Varaždin. In the same period, Lalangue published the first Croatian midwifery textbook entitled Brevis institute de reobstetritia iliti kratek navuk od mestrie pupkorezne za potrebochu muskeh y sziromaskeh ladanovskaya horvatskoga orszaga y okolo nyega blisnesseh sztrankih, Trattnern, Zagreb. In 1779, Lalangue published his balneological debut in Croatian, the book Tractatus de aquis medicati Regnorum Croatiae et Slavoniae Iliti Izpiszavanye vrachtvenih vod Horvatzkoga y Slavonskoga orszaga y od nachina nye vsivati za potrebochu lyudih, Trattnern, Zagreb. Lalangue’s works were used in systematic training and education of midwives and they, as well as Lalangue, have an inevitable place in the history of Croatian midwifery. During his life and work, John the Baptist Lalangue made immeasurable contribution to the development of Croatian public health. KW - Protestantism KW - Public health KW - Midwifery KW - Obstetrics KW - Croatia Y1 - 2020 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55318 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-553182 SN - 1333-9451 SN - 0353-9466 N1 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ VL - 59 IS - 1 SP - 141 EP - 146 PB - Sestre Milosrdnice Univ. Hospital [u.a.] CY - Zagreb ER -