Luko Stulić. Luca Stulli, also Luko Stulić, (1772–1828) was a scientist from the

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(Republic of

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) in today's southern

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who first made

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studies of heritable

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s. His

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of what became the Mljet disease (after the

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island of Mljet) is a classic in dermatological literature. He began studying medicine at the

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in 1792, graduating in 1795. From there he travelled to Florence and then to Naples, where he worked under the doctors Cotunnio and Cirillo.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 209-210.

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*''Trattenimento Accademico per i signori Marino di Pozza, Luca Stulli, Giovanni di Natali, Giovanni Dinarich studenti di Filosofia il primo anno del loro corso nel Collegio delle Scuole Pie il dì 31. Maggio 1791. Ragusa : Andrea Trevisan, 1791'' *''A perpetua onoranza del dottor Luca Stulli di Ragusi Prose e versi, Stulli, Luka'' *''Prose e versi ad onore del dottor Luca Stulli di Ragusa, Ferruccio, Michele 1829'' * Croatian scientists Scientists from the Austrian Empire People from Dubrovnik Italian dermatologists Ragusan scholars 1772 births 1828 deaths 19th-century Italian scientists {{Croatia-scientist-stub

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