SHORT HISTORY OF PUBLISHED MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Namjera je ovog rada prikazati postupni razvitak medicinske književnosti, od prvih stručnih ili popularnih djela do periodičnih redovitih izdanja – časopisa. Osobita pažnja posvećena je kronologiji pokretanja i gašenja časopisa u hrvatskim zemljama, od prvoga, pokrenutog 1860. (Slovinski prvenci o naravi i zdravlju), do današnjih dana. Literatura o povijesti medicinske znanstvene žurnalistike razmjerno je skromna, ali ipak otkriva da su pojedine faze razvoja časopisnog izdavaštva slijedile zakonitosti svoga vremena i u pogledu sadržaja publiciranog materijala i u jeziku koji je upotrijebljenIt is the aim of this review to present the gradual development of medical literature, from the first professional or popular works, until the explosion of periodical regular editions – the journals. Special attention has been devoted to the chronology of launching and extinguishing of journals on Croatian territories, from the first journal, Slovinski prvenci o naravi i zdravlju, first appearing in 1860, until our days. The literature on the history of medical scientific journalism is relatively modest but it still reveals that various phases of the development of publishing journals followed the necessities of their own times, both with respect to their published content and regarding the language they use