BALONI VARAŽDINCA MATIJE GRGURA KRAŠKOVIĆA (POVODOM 200-GODIŠNJICE PRVIH KRAŠKOVIĆEVIH LETOVA)
BALLONS OF THE MATIJA GRGUR KRAŠKOVIĆ FROM VARAŽDIN (CELEBRATING BICENTENARY OF THE FIRST KRAŠKOVIĆ’S FLIGHTS)

Summary/Abstract: The life and works of very first Slovene-Croatian airman Gregor Krašković, the pioneer of vaccination and is described. Besides his achievements in the air his earth results are also put into the limelight, among them the early smallpox vaccination, critique of tobacco and alcohol abuse, as well as reports on supposed chemical causes for the underground detonations under the island Mljet. Gregor Krašković began the operative research of medical protection of workers and tried to include handicapped persons to useful work in Varaždin area. He noticed the unhealthy circumstances of his contemporary obstetrics and therefore organized the education of practical midwives of Varaždin area. After he returned to his Viennese Alma Mater he published his result of children and adult smallpox vaccination in leading London Medical Journal of Jenner’s Society. In later years he became one of the leading Viennese physicians practicing in the very down-town. In 1808 he translated the critique of tobacco and alcohol abuse of leading Harvard American professor Benjamin Waterhouse. In 1810 Krašković published his Viennese history of flight focused of his own and other research of aeronaut’s medical circumstances.

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