Marko Gerbec
Marko Gerbec was a Carniolan physician and scientist, notable as the founder of modern medicine among the Slovenes and for the first description of AdamsStokes syndrome. It was published in 1717 and 44 years after its publication quoted by Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
Marko Gerbec was born in entvid pri Stini to the family of a serf. After graduating from the Jesuit college in Ljubljana , he studied with the help of a government scholarshipfirst philosophy in Laibach , then medicine in Vienna. Just a few days before the arrival of the Ottoman Army at Vienna in 1683, he left the city for Padua. He finished his studies in 1684 at Bologna. One of his professors there was Marcello Malpighi.
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