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Museum
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| Prim. dr Budimir Pavlović |
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On the occasion of the founding of the Serbian Medical Society, the following was written in the “social constitution”:
""...that the Society contemporaneously collects materials and other legacies of our medical science, to show the generations of doctors who follow, the developmental course of Serbian medicine..."
With this was laid the foundation for the museum’s collection, from which today’s Museum of Serbian Medicine would take shape. The first collection was managed by Dr. Josif Pančić (1872), while the first exhibition open to the public (1972) was organised by Dr. Vladimir Stanojević. The Museum was opened in 1989 within its current premises.
According to the founding conception, the Museum has several main collections, which are exhibited, as well as several less significant stocks.
1. ANTHROPOLIGICAL COLLECTION in which is exhibited material of archaeological-anthropological research from Djerdap, Sremska Mitrovica, Trgovište, Čačak, and Žiča. The most significant exhibits from this collection are
(a) a treated fractured forearm whose age dates back to seven centuries before Christ;
(b) a tooth filling discovered in Trgovište, in a thousand-year-old grave. This is believed to be the oldest filling known to science.
2. SERBIAN MEDICINE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE FOUNDING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE presents the developmental course of Serbian medicine, from the organised hospitals of the Middle Ages (Hilandar, Belgrade, Dečani, Studenica, Prizren, Constantinople), through individual personalities and original documents about the establishment of a health-care service after the Sretenj Constitution (1839), to the First congress of Serbian physicians and naturalists in Belgrade (1904).
3. COLLECTION OF DIPLOMAS AND TEXTBOOKS OF SERBIAN PHYSICIANS who in the previous century were awarded scholarships “by medical specialisation” to study abroad for the needs of Serbia. Old medical books from medical libraries also belong to this collection. The collection also includes the showcase: the History of Yugoslav penicillin.
4. UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE IN BELGRADE in which are exhibited objects and teaching aids with which the University began its operation (1920). Professor Nešić’s Electromagnet also belongs to this collection, which he constructed in order to remove metal objects from tissue. The collection also includes early diagnostic apparatuses.
5. SERBIAN MILITARY MEDICAL CORPS consists of objects and documents related to the work of our military medical corps from its founding (1840), through all the wars fought by Serbia “for independence and culture,” until the formation of the Yugoslav state (1919). The exhibit Thank you Canadians was added to this collection, which the “Serbian National Academy” from Toronto donated to the Museum (organised by Mrs. Sofija Škorić).
6. SERBIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY consists of pictures, objects, and documents that represent over 125 years of this Society’s work, which in addition to the Serbian Registry, the Serbian lycées, Vujić’s theatre, as well as the founding Karlovac and Belgrade secondary schools, has become a part of Serbian history.
7. SERBIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY is a collection of documents, photographs, and some objects that are related to the founding and initial year of work of the Serbian Red Cross Society.
8. WORK OF THE BELGRADE MEDICAL CORPS DURING THE 1941 AND 1944 AERIAL ATTACKS. This collection includes documents, photographs, and objects related to the work of the medical corps during the war.
Local collections that fall within the structure of the Museum have been founded and can be viewed in Požarevac and Niš. The presentation of lectures and thematic exhibits also falls within the framework of the Museum’s activities, on the occasion of the observation of significant dates related to medicine and health-care.
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Statute of SMS