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the world and applied his method of preventing malaria by systematic quininisation of the whole populations in malaric areas. In 1893, a businessman from Vienna, Paul Kupelwieser (1843-1919) bought the Brijuni Islands to set up a climatic summer resort there. He, however soon faced a great problem of malaria and initiated an extensive sanitization program on the malaric islands. The assanation lasted for eight years. At the end of 1899 Kupelwieser invited Koch to come from Berlin to Brijuni to treat malaric population. Having determined the status of the patients and having performed all the tests, Koch and his associates physician Paul Frosch and his assistant physician Eisner started to treat the diseased people. A number of blood tests were performed and many cases of tertian and tropic malaria as well as sporadic cases of quartan malaria were found. Microscopic examinations of anopheles proved the presence of plasmodia. More than hundred blood preparations were studied. The scientists introduced Count Kupelwieser and his majordomo Cufar to the basic principles of malaria and the methods of treatment with quinine (Capak and al, 2001). Soon, the first positive results of the therapy were achieved. Some other physicians, namely Bludan and Rivas also visited Brijuni to learn from Frosch 1 about the methods of treatment of malaria to apply it in some German colonies. In only a year 199 out of 200 malaric people at the islands of Brijuni were cured. After having completed their work at Brijuni, dr. Koch and his associates worked for another year on prevention of malaria in the inland part of Istria. After the program was successfully completed and systematic quininisation of the Brijuni population performed, in 1903, the Islands of Brijuni finally became free of malaria. A constant and the biggest threat to the tourism was elevated. As a mark of gratitude P. Kupelwieser ordered a monument to be built by a sculptor from Vienna Josef Engelhart. It is a relief showing the figure of a young girl symbolising the Islands of Brijuni, approaching dr. Robert Koch to laureate him. Over the relief there is an inscription in German: 'Paul Frosch (1860-1928) was an expert in hygiene and the director of the Scientific Department of the Institute for the Contagious Diseases in Berlin. Dr. Robert Koch (1843-1910)
