Skip to main content
Home
About repository
Contact
EN
HR
Repository of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
FMRI Repository
Browse
By Author
By Year
By Organizational unit
By Scientific field
By Object type
All documents
Advanced search
Upload
Search Term
Download
PDF 1.38 MB
Professional paper - Review paper
10
3
Antonio Grossich - on the centenary of his introduction of iodine tincture painting in the preoperative infection control
Gruber, Franjo; Skrobonja, Ante (2009)
Cite this item:
https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:184:826001
Metadata
Language
English
Title (English)
Antonio Grossich - on the centenary of his introduction of iodine tincture painting in the preoperative infection control
Author
Gruber, Franjo
Skrobonja, Ante
Abstract (English)
The article presents the life and achievements of Doctor Antonio Grossich, the head of the Department of surgery and gynecology of the Civic hospital in Rijeka. He wrote several liter¬ary works, but deserves to be remembered for his clinical and experimental work on antiseptic and aseptic procedure. He introduced the method of painting the operative field with 10 % iodine tincture at first in traumas, then in general surgery. The method, for its rapidity, efficacy and not expensive had soon a worldwide success. He also participated actively in the political life of Rijeka before and after the World War I.
Keywords (English)
History of medicine
20th century
surgery
asepsis
antisepsis
iodine painting
Antonio Grossich
Publication type
professional paper - review paper
Publication status
published
Peer review
peer review
Journal title
Acta medico-historica Adriatica
Numbering
2009, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 83-90
ISSN
1334-4366
e-ISSN
1334-6253
Date
publication: 15.06.2009.
Article URL
http://hrcak.srce.hr/47410
Scientific field
BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE
Basic Medical Sciences
History of Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences
Institution
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
URN:NBN
https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:184:826001