Stanko Sielski

Physician, scientist and humanist. He was born in Gračanica, attended high school in Travnik and completed his studies of medicine in Vienna in 1919. Throughout rural Bosnia, he made a significant contribution to treating the sick, preventing various diseases and the health education of the people. In the Second World War as the head of the Institute for Combating Endemic Syphilis. He published 20 papers: 16 from the realm of medicine, two from archaeology, and one each from the fields of ethnography and sociology. He researched the life and work of doctors from previous generations, the work of medical institutions, old medical manuscripts written in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, folk beliefs about the origins and treatment of a variety of illnesses, and the role of herbal medicine and amulets in treating the sick.