Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2016 Volume 144, Issue 1-2, Pages: 111-115
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH1602111D
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Foreign scientists on the contribution of Serbian physician and scientist dr. Lazar K. Lazarević to medical science
Drača Sanja (College of Applied Sciences, Kruševac)
Dr. Lazar K. Lazarević (1851-1890, Julian calendar / 1891, Gregorian
calendar) was an exceptional Serbian physician, scientist, writer and
translator. During his short life and his close to 11-year-long professional
career (1879-1890), Dr. Lazarević authored 78 scientific papers and
presentations in various branches of medicine. His greatest contribution to
the field of neurology and to medical science in general is his description
of the straight leg raising test. The article titled “Ischiac postica
Cotunnii - One contribution to its differential diagnosis” was published in
the Serbian language (in Cyrillic alphabet) in the Serbian Archives of
Medicine in 1880. The article was translated to German and republished in
Vienna in 1884 in Allgemeine Wiener medizinische Zeitung. The straight leg
raising test is usually called Lasègue’s test/sign, after the French
clinician Charles Lasègue, although he never described it. However, there
are numerous authors who admit that Lasègue never published the description
of the straight leg raising test, and instead give full credits for its
discovery to Dr. Lazarević. Our objective in this article is to highlight
the major literature written by foreign scientists who give credit to Dr.
Lazarević for his contribution to medical science.
Keywords: straight leg raising test, neurology, history