Povijest dentalne medicine u Osijeku

Throughout history, Osijek and Slavonia were parts of numerous empires and states. In this paper, the authors depict dental health care of the inhabitants of Osijek and Slavonia throughout their history, since the ancient prehistoric times when dental medicine and medicine in general were ‘in the hands’ of gods and medicine men, throughout the period of the Roman Empire and Middle Ages, as well as the Turkish sovereignty, all the way to the modern era when Osijek and Slavonia became part of the Austrian Empire and many novelties were introduced in the society, among other things, and for those times, modern procedures of medicine and dental protection. Those were the true beginnings of medicine and dental protection. The authors illustrate the work of various ‘dentists’ who worked in Osijek, from military and town surgeons, barbers, and especially the work of doctors that needed to have formal school and specialist education after the reforms implemented in the 19th century. Thanks to the reforms of the Austrian, and later the Austrian-Hungarian authorities, the practice and work of people who were allowed to perform dental procedures started being regulated, prices were established, and punishments introduced for those who performed dental procedures without having the proper qualifications.Osijek i Slavonija su tijekom vremena bili dijelom mnogih carstava i država. U ovome radu autori prikazuju skrb o dentalnom zdravlju stanovništva Osijeka i Slavonije kroz povijest. Od najstarijih pretpovijesnih vremena kada je dentalna zaštita, kao uostalom i medicina općenito bila u „nadležnosti“ božanstava i vračeva, preko rimskog i srednjovjekovnog razdoblja te razdoblja turske vladavine pa do novovjekovnog razdoblja kada Osijek i Slavonija ulaze u sastav Austrijske carevine i kada se uvode mnoge novine na svim poljima društvenog života, između ostalog i za ono vrijeme moderni postupci medicine i dentalne zaštite. Od tada zapravo možemo govoriti o pravim počecima medicine i dentalne zaštite. Autori prikazuju rad brojnih „zubara“ koji su djelovali u Osijeku, poput vojnih i gradskih kirurga, brijača i napose, nakon reforma provedenih u 19. stoljeću, liječnika koji su morali imati propisanu školsku i specijalističku izobrazbu. Zahvaljujući reformama austrijskih, a potom i austro-ugarskih vlasti uveden je red u postupanje i rad osoba koje su smjele provoditi dentalne zahvate, propisane su cijene za iste i uvedene kazne za one koji su se bavili dentalnim zahvatima, a za to nisu imali kvalifikacije