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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009
Series 6: Medical Sciences
Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine
ONE WRITING FROM �BRAHIM TEMO
ABOUT THERMAL SPRINGS OF BURSA
AND ROMANIA
M. YAPRAK 1 N. GÖKÇE 2
Abstract:
Dr. �brahim Temo (1865-1945) one of the founders of The Committee of
Union and Progress (�ttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) was born in Struga as an
Ottoman citizen with Albanian origin. He graduated from Gülhane Military
Medical School in 1892. He began his ophthalmology education in Istanbul
but finished in Romania, because he had to escape from dictatorship of II.
Abdülhamid. He opened a lot of bureaus of Committee in Bulgaria and
Romania. Temo returned to �stanbul in 1908 but didn’t get on with his
Committee. He founded Osmanlı Demokrat Partisi (Ottoman Democratic
Party). In 1911 he returned to Romania because of pressures and threats.
Temo was not only a doctor and a politician. He was also an author. He
always wrote. He sent writings from Romania to Türkish journals especially
the �çtihad of Abdullah Cevdet who was also one of the founders of The
Committee. It is reported that achieve of Temo is in Tiran. In his writing in
the �çtihat of 01 February 1925, he notices first the importance and misery of
the Bursa thermal springs. Later he introduced some important thermal
springs and hospitals of Romania. He gives communications about the
attaining, prices and medical utilities of these organizations. According to
this important writing about history of thermal medicine of Türkiye and
Romania, thermal springs of Romania were in better condition than Bursa
thermal springs in 1925
Key words: Ibrahim Temo, Romania, Thermal Spring, Bursa, Türkiye
In 1920’s hydrotherapy, balneotherapy,
spa centres and sanitarium therapy were
more popular treatment modalities than
today’s modern medicine and physical
therapies. There are a few articles focusing
on thermal therapies of those times.
An interesting and comparative article
was written by Dr. �brahim Temo (3). He,
in his article, compared Turkish and
Pomanian thermal therapy centres from
medical history point of view. Temo’s
article provides important information on
thermal therapies of 1920’s.
Dr. �brahim Temo (1865-1945), one of
the founders of the Committee of Union
and Progress (�ttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti),
was born in Struga as an Ottoman citizen
of Albenian origin (See Figure 1).
After graduated from Gülhane Military
Medical School in 1892, he started studing
ophtalmology in Istanbul. Since he had to
escape from the dictatorship of
Abdülhamid II, he completes his training
period in Romania. He opened a lot of
1 Trakya University, Medical Faculty Departments of Physiology, Edirne - Turkye
2 Trakya University, Medical Faculty Departments of History of Medicine - Edirne - Turkye