Description

A rare medical publication by the Slovenian / Yugoslav partisans, printed in an underground press during WWII, includes articles on lice, disinfection and medicine against itch, construction of a basic bathroom, partisan fighter as a nurse, diseases of teeth and dental care, scurvy and burial of the dead in the woods. A folding mimeographed illustration represents a construction of a barrel for disinfection.

According to the introduction this manual was made to improve the medical treatment and the hygiene of the growing resistance movement.

Many partisan medical doctors and nurses, some only trained by short clandestine courses, were working on the field in the guerrilla war with improvised equipment, as the others were working under harsh conditions in hospitals, hidden in the woods and secret partisan bases. During WWII there were circa 120 improvised underground partisan hospitals in Slovenia, with most famous one being Franja, named after a female medical doctor dr. Franja Bojc (click here fort he photos).

This series was printed by the Partisans in the coastal region of Slovenia and was a transcription of a mimeographed magazine, issued in Bela Krajina by another underground medical stuff.