Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.18.2.3
“HEALTH FOR ALL”. THE MEDICAL SYSTEM IN WALLACHIA UNDER PROTOMEDICUS NICOLAE GUSSI 1848-1859
Lidia Trăuşan-Matu
orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-9975
; Lidia Trăușan-Matu, History of Medicine Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to provide an overview of the evolution of the medical system
in Wallachia between 1840 and 1860 and the very important role of physician Nicolae
Gussi (1802-1869), protomedicus of Wallachia between 1840 and 1859, to transform medicine
into a modern public service, accessible to the entire population. Particularly, we will
refer to the medical reform project of 1853, which Gussi implemented during the time he
headed the medical-sanitary administration. We will insist on the details of the project because
it was designed to create a network of county hospitals that would improve the health
of the population and, in the medium and long term, would reduce mortality and increase
life expectancy. Another dimension of the study aims at the tenure of physicians in county
hospitals and describes the medical services they provided to patients, particularly from the
poor population.
Keywords
medical institutions, medical policies, physicians, disease, modernization
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251591
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Publication date:
31.12.2020.
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