[The scope of the foundation of the "Victor Babeş" Institute for the development of public health in Romania].

Abstract

Presentation of the unpublished documents, deposited with the State Archives Dept. in bucharest, referring to the foundation of "V. Babeş" Institute enriches the specialty literature, vouching the medical-historic significance of the very moment it was founded. It is through the foundation of the Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology in 1887 under the leadership of prof. dr. V. Babeş, that new perspectives are opening towards a bright tradition of he Romanian medicine regarding public health development in Romania. Major tool in researching and solving of some main preventive medical public health questions, the "V. Babeş" Institute represented both a true center for training some outstanding personalities of the Romanian medicine within the field of the pathologic and microbiologic anatomy, and a model of organizing and developing some new research institutes, in the medical and pharmaceutical field.