Author/Editor		Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka; Slavec, Ksenija
Title		Mednarodno pionirsko protialkoholno delo (1834) F. V. Lipiča (1799-1845)
Translated title		Lipič's international pioneering anti-alcohol work
Type		članek
Source		Zdrav Vestn
Vol. and No.		Letnik 80, št. 6
Publication year		2011
Volume		str. 506-15
Language		slo
Abstract		In his first post as a doctor to the poor in Ljubljana, Lipič was for 11 years regularly encountering the destitute of the city. Among them were numerous alcoholics. He selected 200 alcoholics, whom he monitored in two groups over a period of four years. He conducted an exceptionally extensive clinical study, recording the illness and mortality rate of the subjects observed, and also the birth rate in their families. Likewise, he kept track of the epidemiology of alcoholism, established his own classification for it, and with great care statistically processed the results of the study published in his book. These revealed devastating medical, social, economic and other consequences. Although alcoholism was widespread throughout Europe, and was being dealt with the medical experts from diverse language regions, Lipičœs study was by no means a compilation of foreign findings. His work, both in content and methodology, is original. The German Haberlings' Biographical Lexicon of exceptional doctors of all times and nations, published in 1929, accords primacy to Lipič's work in scientific research on alcoholism in the world literature. Although 175 years have passed since its publication, the content of this inspired author's work still remains relevant today.
Descriptors		HISTORY OF MEDICINE ALCOHOLISM BIOGRAPHY RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES