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D. BARAN, - Greek physicians and medical emancipation of the Romanian lands 45 The «contact immunity» was thus definitely proved. During World War I, Cantacuzino successfully fought epidemics by antityphic-paratyphic, anti-diphtheric and anticholeric vaccination. He efficiently set up antituberculosis and antimalaria strategies in Romania. Due to him, a close friend to Calmette, his country was the second one, after France, to introduce Calmette-Guérin bacillus-based antituberculosis vaccination. At the Faculty of Sciences in Ia�i, Cantacuzino was professor of Animal Morphology (1894-1896). In 1917, during World War I, he founded in Ia�i, along with Russian and French physicians, "The Medico-Surgical Society of the Russian-Romania Front”. At the end of the war, in 1920, Cantacuzino represented Romania in Paris at the peace treaty, a document he signed with Titulescu on behalf of their country. Constantin Levaditi Born at Gala�i as the son of a Romanian mother and a Macedo-Romanian (Vlach) father from the Pindos Mountains, Constantin Levaditi (1874-1953) studied medicine in Bucharest and was trained in Victor Babe�’ school for five years, as an eminent research assistant. He then left for Paris, were he had a brilliant career at the „Pasteur” Institute. [9, 13] Fig.12. Constantin Levaditi Levaditi laid the basis of virology and further developed immunology in universal medicine. He authored the first treatise of virology ever published -“Les ultravirus des maladies humaines” (Paris, 1937)- and pioneered viral cultures techniques, including viral multiplication in tumoral tissues. He investigated poliomyelitis, syphilis and cancer, their origin and therapy. [9, 13] Levaditi was nominated several times to the Nobel Prize for Medicine between 1930-1934. Indirectly, he fathered microbiology in Romania, too, through his disciple, professor �tefan S. Nicolau (1896-1967). [3] They first met in 1921 in Cluj, where Levaditi was appointed professor and Nicolau graduated. Levaditi put a mark on Nicolau, who, in 1942, inaugurated in Bucharest the first Chair of Inframicrobiology in the world. Fig.13. �tefan S. Nicolau Nicolau contributed to the characterization of the Borna virus and virus replication in tumours. In 1939, when he returned to Romania, Nicolau was initially appointed professor of Bacteriology at Ia�i, where he remained only for a short lapse of time. Homo Balcanicus «Balkan countries» result to be more than simply a geographical concept. This south-eastern European region shared common historical circumstances and challenges. Balkan peoples developed related features and adopted comparable behavioural patterns. At the crossroads of Orient and Occident, of three great
46 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI monotheistic religions - christianity, judaism and islam -, of three great empires - Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian, of three great ideologies - democracy, dictatorship, anarchy, and three great political systems - capitalism, communism and liberalism, the Balkan community seemed to display intertwined complementary faces. Paradoxically, the «powder barrel» of Europe enabled a transcultural melting pot to exist, living this diversity, revealing identities, transforming mentalities between health and disease, life and death. Medicine in the Romanian Lands evolved along both Western European and Balkan coordinates and its original contribution to the progress of science still awaits to be acknowledged and officially integrated to the universal history of the healing art. The peculiarities of Balkan medicine are in keeping with both homo balcanicus and homo europaeus and express the same aspirations of homo universalis. References 1. Bârs�nescu �t, Schola Latina de la Cotnari, Litografia �i Tipografia Înv��mântului, Bucure�ti, 1957. 2. Berza M, Pentru o istorie a vechii culturi române�ti, Ed. Eminescu, Bucure�ti, 1985, 173-193. 3. Bologa V, Istoria Medicinei Universale, Ed. Medical�, Bucure�ti, 1970, 284-8,398-9, 741-5. 4. Bouchard J, L'aube des Lumières dans les Pays Roumains, Rev Hist Inst Rech Néohell, 2005, 2:31-51. 5. Bouchard J,Nicolae Mavrocordat, domn �i c�rturar al Iluminismului timpuriu, Ed. Omonia, Bucure�ti, 2006. 6. De Raymond J-F, Querelle de l'inoculation, ou, Préhistoire de la vaccination, Librairie Philosophique J.Virin, Paris, 1982, 31-39. 7. Giselini F, Încercare de istorie politic� �i natural� a Banatului Timi�oarei, Ed.Facla, Timi�oara, 1984. 8. Iftimovici R., History of Science in South-Eastern Europe, Newsletter, 2001, 5: 13:14. 9. Iftimovici R, Grama S, Newsletter for the History of Science in Southeastern Europe, 2003, 7:13-14. 10. .Ionescu C, Prophylaxis of Smallpox in Romanian Traditional Medicine, J Prev Med, 2001, 9: 74-76. 11. Izsák S, Étudiants roumains à l`Université montpelleraine, 16e Cong Int Hist Méd, Montpellier, 1958. 12. Karamberopoulos D, The medical European knowledge in the Greek region 1745-1821, Library on the History of Medicine, Publishing House Ath. Stamoulis, Athens, 2003, 1: 312. 13. Lascaratos J,.Kalantzis G, Skiadas P, Constantin Levaditi: An unknown pioneer in immunology research, Arch Hell Med, 2003, 20, 3:319–325. 14. Radu R, Cultura Mavrocorda�ilor, Economia, 2004, 2: 91-93. 15. Romanescu C, Note medico-istorice la domnia lui Despot Vod�, Rev.Med, 1969, XV, 1: 110-112. 16. Ruffini M, Biblioteca stolnicului Constantin Cantacuzino, Ed. Minerva, Bucure�ti, 1973.
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