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1743 John the Baptist Lalangue, Croatian physician, was born (Matton, Belgium, 27 April 1743 - Varaždin, 20 May 1799). He completed his medical studies in Vienna in 1770. At the urging of the reformer of Austrian health, G. van Swieten, came to Croatia to reorganize the health service, and in 1772 was appointed county physicist in Varaždin. He was engaged in the field of hygiene and preventive medicine, sought to improve the economic and social opportunities of the Croatian population, undertook systematic midwifery training. He was the most important representative of the Enlightenment in the health field, the originator of professional medical literature in the Croatian language, the author of the first health education books for Croatian people: Vračtva ladanjska (1776) and Kratek navuk od meštrije pupkorezne  (1777).