[Hospitals and some outstanding physicians of Pancevo].

This paper is a retrospection of hospitals and some outstanding physicians who lived in Pancevo, written in the honor of 50th anniversary of "Medical Review". Hospital bed capacity and the process of building hospitals have been: described briefly. Fire and wars have destroyed a lot of written evidence important for Pancevo health services. Nevertheless, the preserved sources let us read about facts that have already or will soon become part of the history of medicine. Apart from this, the paper also contains important details from the life and work of Konstantin Peicić (1802-1882), a famous physician, writer of the first Serbian original medical book "De pauperum aegrorum" (About Treating the Sick and Poor) and many other medical and fine literature works. He had worked in Pancevo for more than 30 years, but after he had retired, he moved to Budapest to become the manager of the Tekelianum in 1874. He spoke Latin, Hungarian, French, Italian, German and of course Serbian language. The paper also gives data on some other physicians: Ljubomir Nenadović a dentist and a writer, Jovan Jovanović-Zmaj, a physician and a great Serbian poet and a founder of the journal "Ziza" and assistant of the journal "Pancevac" founded in 1869, and so on. The above mentioned physicians had lived and worked in Pancevo since the first medical institution "Kontumac" was built in 1726, but then others were built too: the first civil hospital in 1803 and the first army hospital in 1830. Modern departments were built in 1965, whereas the Children's Department for Internal Diseases and the Department for Internal Diseases were built in 1974. This retrospection tried to present the history of Pancevo as well as great people from our past who worked there to our readers. They were great physicians, educators and gifted writers.