[The effect of Islam on the development of health conditions worldwide and in Bosnia]. / Uticaj islama na razvoj zdravstvenih prilika u svijetu i Bosni.

Islam has initiated fast development of health system worldwide, as well as in Bosnia. That progress is, primarily, a result of faith that is not only a religion, but also a philosophy of life in general. Islam prefers studying and science, and it brings many precise statements on hygiene in all aspects of human life. Naturally, that resulted in many laws, institutions and activities in all aspects of health system. That has happened 800 years before sanitary inspection in Europe was established. Author made a question: Why and how public health has developed in islamic countries so many years earlier than European science began to deal with it? God's will, that had illuminated mind of an alphabetic shepherd, illuminated man's mind. So, islamic rules have posed the direction to be followed.

[From the regional hospital to the Clinical Center in Sarajevo--100 years of work and development]. / Od zemaljske bolnice do klinickog centra u Sarajevu--stogodisnji presjek rada i razvoja.

In the course of the past 100 years of the Regional Hospital, the Clinical Centre now experienced a number of organizational, functional and technological changes. There 6 striking periods: 1. Period of the Regional Hospital in Sarajevo, 1894-1918; 2. General State Hospital, 1919-1940; 3. World War 2, 1941-1945; 4. Clinical Hospital of the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo, 1946-1974; 5. University Medical Centre in Sarajevo, 1974-1992; 6. Clinical Centre of University in Sarajevo, since 1992 to the present days. From the modest building like pavilions, the Regional Hospital in Sarajevo became a modern Clinical Centre, 40 units, Institute of Research Work and the developed secondary and terciary health protection, except cardiosurgery. The Clinical Centre and its staff are the true heroes of the war, who succeed in the past two years to extend over a million of helps, nearly 20,000 surgical operations, over 1,5 million of diagnostic treatments, more than 100,000 psychotherapeutical treatments, more than 3,000 deliveries, etc. All that was performed in the extra-ordinary difficult circumstances, without electricity, the damaged equipment, reduced medical staff and shortage of the medical materials and drugs. The Clinical Centre was awarded by the UN for humanity and human rights, 1983 and the Humanist of the Year in B&H in 1993.

[Great Arab physician-practitioners]. / Veliki arapski lijecnici prakticari.

In the pleiad of the great names from the Golden Age of the Arabian medicine: at-Taberi, ar-Razi, al-Magusi, al-Baitar, al-Zahrawi, ibn-Sina, ibn-Haitam, ibn-Zuhr, ibn-Rushd, ibn-Nefis the important place belongs to the physicians-practitioners--many of the applied methods by the Arabian doctors were forerunners of the contemporary diagnostic or therapeutical methods. Later the methods were modernized by the great surgeons Ambroise Pare, Agnew, Hunter, Warren, Billroth, Mayo et al. No doubts, the methods and instruments of that time were primitive and the possibilities for research work, difficult. Because of this reason a respect should be given to those great man in the history of medicine.

[Hematomas located in the basal ganglia and thalamus (diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic aspects)]. / Hematomi gangliobazalne i talmicke lokalizacije (dijagnosticko-terapeutski i prognosticki aspekt).

A series of 129 cases of spontaneous intracerebral hematomas of ganglio-basal and thalamic localization was studied. Out of the number, twenty were thalamic hematomas. Only hematomas of hypertensive and unknown etiology were analysed. In all patients included in the study, the diagnosis was established using clinical methods and confirmed using radiological methods. Thalamic hemorrhages were treated conservatively, while those of ganglio-basal localization were treated both conservatively and surgically, depending on localization and initial clinical picture. The results of the treatment and quality of life in survivors were directly dependent upon the clinical and radiological parameters.

[Importance of early neurosurgical intervention in acute traumatic comatose and subcomatose states]. / Znacaj hitnih neurohirurskih intervencija kod akutnih traumatskih komatoznih i subkomatoznih stanja.

The authors report 91 cases of acute posttraumatic coma. The propose undertaking of promptly diagnostic, and consider that the most important is angiographic examination. Excluded the cases of clinical evident brain death of very dad generaly status of patient, they preopse prompt carotid angiography by every case of posttraumatic cerebral coma, in spite of eventual lack the neurological lateralisation. When they havenit time of possibility for angiographic examination, they undertook the diagnostic bur-hole. Early intracranial and intracerebral decompression in the first six hours is, if indication for operation is good line, nowadays unique method for treatment these patients in contemporary neurotraumatology.