Medicina românească: itinerarii europene și desăvârșirea cunoașterii

Abstract

Long before Hippocrates, not only traveller-physician, but equally traveller-patient paradigm was already an acknowledged behavioural pattern. Travel meant, just as now, opinion and experience exchange, case studies and acquaintance with healers, patients assistance and encounters with famous physicians, self-improvement by direct access to professional training centres or to treatment resorts among the most renowned. Romanian medicine developed in this spirit too: it was the fruit of specialists´ „big migrations”, whereas its own representatives were initially formed above all in German, Austrian and French West- European schools, and, to a lesser extent English or North-American establishments. In the 19th century particularly, numerous doctors and pharmacists from the Habsburgic Empire and Germany, then also from France, came to the Romanian Countries, whereas young people from the Romanian provinces left for the same study destinations.