[The establishment of Medical school in Zagreb in World War I].

World War I irrevocably changed the face of the world, including Croatia and its capital Zagreb. While between 1880 and 1910 Zagreb became a modern European city, World War I (1914-1918) was marked by new municipal regulations that overturned the everyday life of the city. Social conditions reached catastrophic proportions, especially in the later years of the war.

[Dr Mavro Sachs (1817-1888): the first lecturer of Zagreb University].

Mavro Sachs (Jánosháza, Hungary, 1817 % emdash; Rijeka, 1888.) was a Zagreb student since 1828. In 1846 he graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna and returned to Zagreb to be the city physician.

[Institutionalisation of Croatian medicine by the first World War].

Unfavourable socioeconomic and political conditions delayed stronger development of medicine in Croatia until the last decades of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th century. This relatively short period saw the establishment of a number of key healthcare institutions such as the institute for smallpox vaccine production, department of bacteriology and hygiene, tuberculosis sanatorium, paediatric outpatient clinic, emergency medical facility, and dissection facility. Hospitals became centres of medical research and started to develop specific clinical professions.

Ass. Prof. Kurt Hühn- pioneer of Croatian ophthalmology.

The late Kurt Hühn (Zagreb, 1875- Rijeka, 1963) was one of the most outstanding figures in the history of Croatian ophthalmology. From 1904 to 1940 he was the head of the Department for Eye Diseases of the Nuns' Hospital (Bolnica sestara milosrdnica) in Zagreb. Under his guidance, the department developed into the largest of the kind in the Balkans, and did not in any respect lag behind other eye departments in Europe.

[Health service in Zagreb a century ago (1907-1909)].

Throughout a short period of only 3 years (1907-1909) a whole range of medical institutions were founded. They were important not only for Zagreb but for the whole Croatia: the first human bacteriological institute, children's dispensary, first aid station, orthopedic and military hospitals, sanatorium for the affluent and sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis. The state hospital began to be built but was not finished.