mumps (6 cases); scabies (6 cases – 2 males, 4 females); syphilis (374 patients –
85 males, 289 females, one girl). From 01.01.1932 an Outpatient for syphilis begins
functioning, and 13,597 injections are performed (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al
Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932b).
Medical Department, allowed in 1932 the hospitalization of 570 patients from
whom: 225 cured, 274 improved; 55 deceased; 16 remained hospitalized, with the
following pathology:
– Poisoning: 44 cases, most with caustic soda (31); Iodine (3); denaturated alcohol
drugs (2); corrosive sublimate (1); and sulfuric acid (1); stomach and esophageal
stenosis complications.
– Tuberculosis
– Pleurisya – almost all of them with tuberculosis origin (32 cases)
– Syphilis (26 cases – the biggest number belonging to foreign patients from
various parts of the country)
– Cancer (8 cases) – stomach, liver, uterus, bladder
– Pellagra
– Rheumatism (28 cases)
– Pneumonia (18 cases) (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale,
fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932c)
Surgery Department benefited of a primary physician, Dr. V. Vasilescu and a
secondary one, Dr. Guthy Eugen, 2 health officials, one health official; a midwife,
1119 patients being treated, with 503 operations and 104 births.
– Operations on the head and cervical region (45): trepanations – 11; tracheostomies – 3; eyeball enucleation – 4; phlegmons – 10; malignant tumor excision – 3.
– Operations on the thorax and the upper limbs (34): amputations – 7; disjoints – 9;
flegmons À10; costotomies – 3; tumor excision – 5.
– Operation on the abdomen and the lower limbs (321): gastro-enteroanastomosys
– 3; hysterecomy – 10; neoplasms – 12; appendectomies – 78; inguinal hernia –
32; thigh amputations – 9; colecystectomies – 7; thyroidectomy – 3; hemorrhoids – 13; hydatid cysts – 3; cervix operations – 7.
There were 54 deaths, in almost all of the violent cases, but in spine fractures
also – 5; scrotum gangrene – 3; sepsis – 5; bowel obstruction – 1; cancer of the
bladder – 1; intrahepatic abscess – 1; combustion – 2; isolated ovarian TBC – 2.
The operations results were good, and all the operations were closed
per-primam; sterilization was performed in admirable conditions, the sterilization
equipment being new and operating all the time. Spinal anesthesia with Novocaine
was regular, except the thorax interventions where chloroform and rarely ether were
used. No complications from anesthesia were registered.
As means of clinical research, the two services from the Hygiene Harbour
Laboratories – Bacteriology and Chemistry were used for blood, urine and bacteriology analyzes (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond
Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932d).
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85 males, 289 females, one girl). From 01.01.1932 an Outpatient for syphilis begins
functioning, and 13,597 injections are performed (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al
Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932b).
Medical Department, allowed in 1932 the hospitalization of 570 patients from
whom: 225 cured, 274 improved; 55 deceased; 16 remained hospitalized, with the
following pathology:
– Poisoning: 44 cases, most with caustic soda (31); Iodine (3); denaturated alcohol
drugs (2); corrosive sublimate (1); and sulfuric acid (1); stomach and esophageal
stenosis complications.
– Tuberculosis
– Pleurisya – almost all of them with tuberculosis origin (32 cases)
– Syphilis (26 cases – the biggest number belonging to foreign patients from
various parts of the country)
– Cancer (8 cases) – stomach, liver, uterus, bladder
– Pellagra
– Rheumatism (28 cases)
– Pneumonia (18 cases) (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale,
fond Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932c)
Surgery Department benefited of a primary physician, Dr. V. Vasilescu and a
secondary one, Dr. Guthy Eugen, 2 health officials, one health official; a midwife,
1119 patients being treated, with 503 operations and 104 births.
– Operations on the head and cervical region (45): trepanations – 11; tracheostomies – 3; eyeball enucleation – 4; phlegmons – 10; malignant tumor excision – 3.
– Operations on the thorax and the upper limbs (34): amputations – 7; disjoints – 9;
flegmons À10; costotomies – 3; tumor excision – 5.
– Operation on the abdomen and the lower limbs (321): gastro-enteroanastomosys
– 3; hysterecomy – 10; neoplasms – 12; appendectomies – 78; inguinal hernia –
32; thigh amputations – 9; colecystectomies – 7; thyroidectomy – 3; hemorrhoids – 13; hydatid cysts – 3; cervix operations – 7.
There were 54 deaths, in almost all of the violent cases, but in spine fractures
also – 5; scrotum gangrene – 3; sepsis – 5; bowel obstruction – 1; cancer of the
bladder – 1; intrahepatic abscess – 1; combustion – 2; isolated ovarian TBC – 2.
The operations results were good, and all the operations were closed
per-primam; sterilization was performed in admirable conditions, the sterilization
equipment being new and operating all the time. Spinal anesthesia with Novocaine
was regular, except the thorax interventions where chloroform and rarely ether were
used. No complications from anesthesia were registered.
As means of clinical research, the two services from the Hygiene Harbour
Laboratories – Bacteriology and Chemistry were used for blood, urine and bacteriology analyzes (Serviciul Judet ¸ean Constant ¸a al Arhivelor Nat ¸ionale, fond
Serviciul Sanitar al Municipiului Constant ¸a 1932d).
40 A Glance at the Medical Activity of “Prof. Dr. V. Sion”. . .
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