Name of Object:

Military Medical kit of Carol Davila

Location:

Bucharest, Romania

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Romanian History

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Date of Object:

1877–1878

Provenance:

France

Description:

In the second half of the 19th century, French doctor Carol Davila played an important role in the development of the Romanian medical system. He came to Bucharest in 1853, sent by the French government at the request of Wallachian prince Barbu Stirbei who needed a specialist to form well trained Romanian doctors. Davila was named medic of the army and later general inspector of the country’s sanitary service and he was the founder of a medicine and pharmacy school. Among other decorations he received for his activity, he was awarded two Ottoman ones (the Orders of Medjidie and of Osmanie), the first for curing Ottoman soldiers who contracted cholera during the Ottoman occupation of Wallachia (1855), and the other for treating wounded Ottoman soldiers during the Russian-Ottoman war of 1877-1878.

Type of Object

Medical kit

Citation of this web page:

"Military Medical kit of Carol Davila" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;rm;27;en

MWNF Working Number: RO 027