Dr Milutin Lj. Perišić (1873-1915), prilozi za biografiju jednog znamenitog Kragujevčanina

Abstract

r. Milutin Lj. Perisic, a specialist in venereal and skin diseases and a deputy medical major, was born in Kragujevac into a civilian family with a long history of contributing high-ranking officials and officers to Serbia. As the child of an officer, he frequently changed his place of residence and education, attending primary school and gymnasium in Kragujevac, Nis, and Belgrade. He then pursued his education at the Law Faculty of the Velika Skola in Belgrade, but realizing that law was not his calling, he left his position as a court clerk and embarked on medical studies in Nancy, where he studied for six years at his own expense. After obtaining a medical degree and defending his thesis on "Syphilis in Serbia," he returned to Serbia in 1901. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed as a physician for the Kosmaj district. He spent time in Paris specializing in venereal and skin diseases, and from 1905 to 1914, he served as a municipal physician in Belgrade while also running a private practice. He was the first in Serbia and this part of Europe to apply "Ehrlich's treatment" for syphilis to his patients. During the Balkan Wars of 1912/13, he served as a physician for the Danube Artillery Regiment, and at the beginning of World War I, he assumed the position of the director of the Military Hospital in Skopje. Just a few months after the death of his wife Zorka, he contracted typhus and passed away as a result of the illness. He was buried at the Serbian military cemetery in Skopje. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Dr. Milutin Lj. Perisic's birth, it is an opportunity to remember this distinguished yet forgotten individual from Kragujevac.