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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI
use they also change the image of the
operations. In this way, modern surgery
occurred initially in Istanbul then after
extended to whole country and western
innovations at surgery were transferred by
new European style surgeons such as
Cemil Pasha and his friends.
Looking to his biography we coincide
with a fast, attractive and amazing life.
Biography
Born in March 6 in 1866 in �stanbul,
Cemil Pasha graduated from Medical High
school of Çengelkoy in Istanbul in 1881. In
1886, as a young captain he completed
Military Medical School ranking first in
class and began to work in Military
Hospital of Sütlüce Kumbarhane Military
Hospital. He was officially sent to Paris
and served at Tillenx and Péan clinics and
after his return he became assistant of
Aristidi Pasha in Military Medical School.
In 1894 he started giving lecture as a
professor and in two years time he was
promoted from lieutenant colonel to
general. Following his surgery service for
wounded in war at Yıldız Hospital, in 1897
he was appointed to the membership of
Tıbbiye-i Mülkiye and Sıhhiye-I
Umumiye. After his membership to
Turkish Medical Association in 1902, he
was granted marshal degree by the Sultan
Hamit in 1905. Cemil Pasha was the first
dean of the Medical Faculty of Ottoman
University and also was a professor at the
Surgery Clinic I in that school. Both of
these two services came to an end in 1911
and he continued his civil life as a mayor
and later lieutenant governor of Istanbul. It
is worth mention here that during his
period, the city of Istanbul met with
automobiles for the first time. Despite his
resign from official jobs in 21 November
1914, he became mayor again in 1919 and
moreover he was assigned minister of
public works at this time. In 1945 he was
elected as a honorary president of Turkish
Medical Association. After having deemed
worth of honorary professor in ordinary by
Istanbul University, he passed away
because of pneumonia in 1958.
Having a social and sympathetic
personality Cemil Pasha drove an effective
and attracting surgeon portrait in early
years of Turkish surgery through putting
forward the truths that was based on his
professional observation and instinct. His
performance of educating is arguable.
Moreover, he tried to make a carrier on
politics as well.
According to his grandson, Topuzlu
was fully an action men. He never deviated
from the right way in his occupations as
surgeon, dean, mayor and ministry of
public work and when he realized that the
things were halting or locked, he preferred
resigning or directing himself new fields
rather than waiting to see what would
happen.
Surgery was the most long-lasting and
the most popular identity of him. Indeed,
he was indebted all of his reputation
gained in his life to the operations that he
made successfully.
Attending Just-Lucas Championniére’s,
Lefort’s, Trelat’s, Guyon’s, Tillaux’s and
Péan’s surgery operations and lessons in
France he got a certificate thanks to Péan’s
close attention and sympathy devoted to
him. During 1890- 1911, when he was at
the peak of his carrier, Cemil Pahsa
worked at the surgery clinics of
Haydarpa�a Military Hospital, Military
Medical Faculty and Civil Medical Faculty
of Haydarpasa.
Apart from his official duties he
operated a private office in Istanbul and
even he made operations at patient’s home
but “medico-social” objections deterred
him to follow this path. He worked also
Zeynep Kamil and �i�li Etfal Hospitals at
the same time and continued his operations
in Egypt at summers. In addition to his
contribution of asepsis and antisepsis and