Medical History of Slovenia

A 19th-century Slovenian folk healer (padar) treating an injured man inside a rural farmhouse, in traditional folk-art style.

On Padarji – Slovenian Folk Healers

Intro to Slovenian folk healers (padarji) and the handwritten medical manuals that shaped rural healing in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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19th-century style painting of three sick children in bed with diphtheria, watched over by grieving parents in a modest Slovenian home

Diphtheria in 19th Century Slovenia

Three children died of diphtheria in Kitni Vrh in 1895. A deadly throat infection that once claimed countless young lives across rural Europe.

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