[Dr. Mihovil Milković--a provincial health correspondent and his inaugural dissertation in dentistry]

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.