Visković R, Jelaca S, Domanovac B
Acta Stomatol Croat. 1988;22(4):319-25.
As capital of Dalmatia, Zadar also was a center of the province health organization. Headquarters of the provincial health correspondent, the most educated and respectable physician in the province, was situated in the town. His duty was to make all efforts for the health status of the population to improve and for the possible epidemics to prevent. Dr Mihovil Milković took over this duty for a certain period of time. At that time, Dalmatians mostly studied medicine in Padua, where Ph. D. in medicine could be obtained after having defended the inaugural dissertation. M. Milković obtained his Padua Ph. D. in 1847, having defended his dissertation in dentistry, entitled "A Brief Review of Pathology and Therapy of Dental Diseases". This dissertation is one of the oldest publications in the field of dentistry in our country, and by its originality and high quality it was on the same level with the medical science in Europe of that time.
作为达尔马提亚的首府，扎达尔也是该省卫生组织的中心。该省卫生通讯员（省内受教育程度最高且最受尊敬的医生）的总部就设在这座城镇。他的职责是尽一切努力改善民众的健康状况并预防可能发生的流行病。米霍维尔·米尔科维奇博士在一段时间内承担了这项职责。当时，达尔马提亚人大多在帕多瓦学习医学，在那里，通过答辩就职论文后可以获得医学博士学位。米·米尔科维奇于1847年在帕多瓦获得博士学位，他的论文答辩题目是牙科领域的《牙科疾病的病理学与治疗简述》。这篇论文是我国牙科领域最古老的出版物之一，就其原创性和高质量而言，与当时欧洲的医学科学处于同一水平。
