Milan Žerajić

Doctor and medical brigadier general. Born in Nevesinje, Žerajić studied at the classical grammar school in Russia and in 1878, as an excellent student, he entered the Imperial Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. He further specialised in Vienna in 1893. He joined the Serbian army as a doctor. During war and peace he made enormous contributions, suppressing infectious diseases, operating on patients and managing hospitals. He was also a great researcher and author and published important textbooks for hospital teaching and service in the army, "Hospital service in war and peace", and in 1929 "Prophylaxis and therapy of infection and its consequences." He received numerous awards for his service.