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Medical Histories Found in Memoirs of Queen Mary of Romania HISTORY OF MEDICINE MEDICAL HISTORIES FOUND IN MEMOIRS OF QUEEN MARY OF ROMANIA Călin Bumbuluţ1, Andrei Bumbuluţ2, Alina Daniela Negru1, Rumelia Koren3 1SCM dr Bumbuluţ-dr Balaj, Satu Mare, România, 2Faculty of Medicine, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, România, 3Department of Pathology, Hasharon Hospital, Petah Tikva, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Address for correspondence: Bumbuluţ Călin, MD, FP Satu Mare, UK 30 Bobocului St, PO 440258 Email: [email protected] Received: 25.08.2014 Accepted: 15.09.2014 Med Con June 2015 Vol 10, No 2, 61-66 Abstract Prince Charles, the future King Carol II) and it thought that this idea will diminish my pains, which did not Mary, Queen of Romania, born as Maria Alexandra happen at all. But, during the time of the toothache, Dr. Victoria of Saxa-Coburg and Gotha (October 29, 1875, Young came into my life. Dr. Young was submitted English, Eastwell Park, Kent, England, July 18, 1938, Sinaia but American by birth (...) his handicraft was large, but Pelişor, Kingdom of Romania), was princess of Great not without pain for those who used it (...) He struggled Britain and Ireland and the consort of King Ferdinand. with my upper jaw and with the bottom jaw and pulled Her memoirs are an important source of informations out four teeth, saying that I have too many teeth for the including medical ones, but also a surprising literature, little space which was reserved for them (...).One of his which proves a writerly talent. Our approach aims at an words remain fadeless forever for me (...) He had found me incursion into the medical informations contained in crying because of the news received in a letter from home, the memoirs of Queen Marie of Romania, to our knowledge being the first attempt of its kind. Keywords: Queen Mary, medicine, typhoid fever, Ion Cantacuzino, Christea Buicliu, Wilhelm and Mite Kremnitz We continue the incursion in Memoirs of Queen Mary, volume II, stopping on some medical histories and not only, on their social and cultural connotations bringing to attention important names of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. “I feel I must mention here being full of goodness which came in my way in those days. I suffered from a terrible toothache; I was in pain all over. I was told that it was about “the cute Crown Prince who was to arrive” (nn. Figure 1. Queen Maria in 1902 Ocular Tuberculosis Suspicion Accompanying Positive Osteoarticular Tuberculosis in a Young Patient 61 HISTORY OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CONNECTIONS • NUMBER 2 (38) • JUNE 2015 my tears flowed like a spring rain. “Wipe your eyes, Dr. Young said, it will not be the last disappointment in your life!” This brief summary of the situation, told without smile or frown, give it the stark measure of the man. Our friendship lasted even after I didn’t need him to take care of my teeth. I keep until today, with real appreciation, the memory of Dr. Young, who lived up until the first year of the Great War” [1, p 41,42]. Birth of Princess Elizabeth, the second child: “(...) But Elizabeth hurried up and arrived on 11 October, so before my mother could come, so in hard times, nobody was with me, but Aunty Elizabeth (our note - Queen Elizabeth) and a Romanian doctor. Later, we Figure 2. Ion Cantacuzino in 1902 (left) and to maturity became thoroughly friends with Dr. Cantacuzino, but at that time, he was a stranger to me and I looked at him with eyes full of fear” [1, p 65]. illness, as we will see from the tragedy of losing the last Ion Cantacuzino (25 November 1863-14 January born, Mircea: “Rarely it happened to me to become ill, 1934) followed the secondary education and the upper because I have a great power of life, but when it happened in philosophy study, natural science and medicine in to me, I could not stop looking at the disease as a Paris. In 1895 he obtained the title of Doctor of humiliation, as a falling. You feel turned over to others and Medicine with the thesis: “ Recherches sur le mode de at their will; the truth is never told to the ill people: from destruction du vibrion cholérique dans l’organisme” the day you are in bed sick you pass the normal boundaries; (“Research on modality of destruction of cholera vibrio all your needs are fulfilled, but others decide for you and in the body”). After graduation, he works in the Pasteur think for you; your horizontal status, in contrast with the Institute in Paris as the assistant of Ilia Ilici Mecinikov vertical one of to the man who stands up and leans on you, in the domain of immune mechanisms of the body. is in itself a defeat, a decrease in your personality, an Back in the country, he is appointed as Professor of inferiority that you are doomed to cope. I never liked to give Experimental Medicine, at the Faculty of Medicine of my will to the other hands, not knowing where this giving Bucharest (1901), and General Director of Health will stop” [1, p 67,68]. Service in Romania (1907). With the support of King The disease of the heir prince, the future King Ferdinand I, which offers land on the banks of the Ferdinand, creates a vivid emotion in the society from Dâmboviţa river, Ioan Cantacuzino will completed his late nineteenth century, through the dramatic largest project: Serums and Vaccines Institute, which implications for the Kingdom of Romania of a possible became active since 1921. Cantacuzino investigated death, and also of the long period of illness: “In the active immunization against dysentery, typhoid fever, summer of the same year, 1897, started so cheerful, I had but he was also preoccupied with the etiology and gone through a terrible concern: my husband became sick pathology of scarlet fever. In 1926, his work has become from a virulent form of typhoid fever and we almost lost so successful, that Romania was the second country in him. He was repeatedly almost dying, because the disease the world after France who introduced bacillus has worsened since the early days through various serious Calmette-Guérin for prophylactic vaccination of complications, eventually a double pneumonia was close to newborns against tuberculosis without to import. As a put an end to his days. I remember how they kept him alive Mecinikov disciple, he devoted part of his research for with injections of high doses of salt water, which tormented phagocytes, means of the body’s defenses against him, but which saved him. I do not know exactly how long pathogens, and also to the problem of immunity, the disease lasted, but it seemed endlessly long for me (...). inventing the concept of contact immunity. During of Three doctors were always around them: dr. Jean the Second Balkan War, he was appointed as head of the Cantacuzino, dr. Buicliu and dr. Kremnitz; the last one action to combat the cholera epidemic in Romanian was a German, with a long brown beard, he was a very Army stationed in Dobrogea, occupying the same clever man and a personal friend of the King and Queen. position during the First World War, to combat the Back then I knew almost nothing about disease and I was typhus. worthless as a nurse (...)” [1, p 136,137]. Queen Mary shows a full understanding of human The one who would become one of the promoters suffering, her family being subject to repeated attacks of of Romanian School of Neurology Psychiatric, Professor 62 Dragosloveanu et al MEDICAL CONNECTIONS • NUMBER 2 (38) • JUNE 2015 HISTORY OF MEDICINE Christea Buicliu was born in Roman on 7 December 1857 in an old Armenian family. He attended secondary school in Iasi, and then in 1875 he went to Paris to study medicine. He finished medical school in 1883 and then returned home. In Bucharest he practiced as physician in the Brâncovenesc Hospital, and in 1886 to the Medical Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine. Christea Buicliu was committed to reforms in the Faculty of Medicine and the Romanian health system. He cooperates closely in this regard with Victor Babeș, which binds him with a sincere friendship. He was appointed as Efor (supervisor) of the hospitals and became one of the founders of the Romanian Figure 3. Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben Neuropsychiatry School. He wrote dozens of books and (1st March 1819 – 24th September 1895) articles in the field, including a “Therapeutic Treaty” in six volumes, “History and Hypnotism”, “Arsenical Polyneuritis” and “Clinical Lectures on the Cardiac Semiology”. Professor’s life ended prematurely at the age of 57, on 9 August 1916, and it rests in Roman, his hometown. “I’ll never forget that terrible night when I was called to the bedside of my husband, because doctors believed that the end was near (...) Nando lay on his back, so weak that his body seemed to be one with the sheet. His face was pale and he breathed with difficulty; his eyes were wide open, glassy (...) I easily grabbed his fingers with mine; his fingers were wet with sweat, the sweat dripped from him, our joined hands were laying in a small pool of water. Often I heard talking of “sweat of death”, now I know what it Figure 4. Titu Maiorescu in youth 1882 (left) and to maturity means!” [1, p 139]. “The wing of death has not reached our house, but the prince’s convalescence was long and difficult; on several which was intended to remain with us until the full occasions, he again fell prey to disease and the great dr.
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