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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009
Series VI: Medical Sciences
Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine
GREEK PHYSICIANS AND PHARMACISTS
GRADUATED IN ATHENS
PRACTICING IN ROMANIA
A. LUCASCIUC 1 M.-G. SULIMAN 2,3
O. ELEFTERIU 3 C. GRECU 3
Abstract: The present work will present a bibliographical list containing
only Greek physicians and pharmacists with specialist training in Athens
(Greece). The few names that have been lost in obscurity are offset by other
personalities who gave medical and pharmaceutical professions resonance in
Romania. Amongst these physicians we mention: Jack and George Zervos,
sons of the pharmacist Gherasimos Zervos (1842-1901) from Sulina,
Comboti Nicholas with doctorate in medicine in 1845, which, subsequent to
the achievement of the free practice right, became a prominent member of
medical society and even the top of the scientific pyramid - chief doctor of
Bucharest in 1869, doctor Androcles Fotino, born in Braila (1834) has
accomplished higher education in Paris and Athens. Upon his return back
home, he achieved higher grades as officer-doctor and professor at the
Bucharest School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Veterinary Science. Amongst
the pharmacists we mention: Petzalis Rasti Sophocles, which graduated with
apothecary diploma in Athens in 1857, in 1864 is the owner of the pharmacy
"Esculap" in Braila until 1883, when his son-in-law receives the ownership
of the pharmacy, Dr. Mina Minovici (Father of forensics in Romania),
continues to work in the laboratory, until his death (1894); Andreea Nicolae,
master in pharmacy graduate from Athens, known in 1864 as owner of the
pharmacy "Spiteria Romana" from Galati, etc.
Key words: Athens, Romania, pharmacists.
Within the bibliographical inventory
presented are listed, in alphabetical order,
the professionals with studies and medical
and pharmaceutical diplomas achieved in
Athens. The primary bibliographical
source is presented abbreviated.
Physicians
1. Adamantis Apostol
(„Veriotul-doctoru”) born in Veria
(Macedonia) in 1822.
1 ISHM, Bucharest.
2 National Medicines Agency, Bucharest.
3 RSHP, Bucharest.
He was for 3 years the apprentice of
medicine attached to Vretos (Serafim
Vreton Ion „the Armenian”), born in
Bucharest, „Parisian doctor, from 1815”;
he was the physician and the teacher of the
prince of Walachia, Ion Caragea.
Vretos, physician, philosopher and
remarkable bibliophile, dr. Adamantis
wrote that his mentor had also the intention
to publish the manuscripts collected, but
all of them burned during the fire in April
1847, together with Bucharest houses.