The first written serbian medical records could be found in the Middle Ages (XIIIth century) when the serbian state was very well organized. St. Save was the son of Grand-Prince Stefan Nemanja (1171-1196), founder of the Serbian independent state and of a powerful dynasty that ruled Serbia for two centuries. At that time the first hospital service was established, and the social program which regulated the relationship between marriage and family, and the kind of therapy, was under the church and state control.