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Alexandru Carnabel (born June 7, 1868, Gemeni, Mehedinți – d. August 10, 1927, Focșani, Putna County) was a Romanian doctor, a prominent personality of Romanian surgery, who, "having often modest means at his disposal, had a special activity. He stood out especially through his medical practice and not necessarily through his published studies";[1] he was mentioned among the first doctors in the country to perform a heart suture in the 1900s, an operation that, for that time, represented a remarkable surgical feat. For over two decades, starting in January 1903, his professional activity was carried out in Galați, at the St. Spyridon Hospital.[2]
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Alexandru Carnabel | |
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Born | |
Died | August 10, 1927 59) | (aged
Nationality | Romania |
Occupation | surgeon |
Organization(s) | corresponding member of the Surgical Society in Paris;
president of the Society for Tuberculosis Prophylaxis and Assistance for poor people with Tuberculosis from Galati and Covurlui county; member and president of the Medical Society in Galați |
Awards | Jubilee Medal Carol I (1906) |
Alexandru Carnabel was born in the village of Gemeni, from Oltenia, currently part of the commune Dârvari, Mehedinți County and attended high school in Craiova, then being among those who benefited from the pedagogic talent of the renowned surgeon Thoma Ionescu ro, founder of Romanian surgery, at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, holding a competition to enter the boarding school (for 3 years) in 1892. He took over from his master's passion for the profession and care for the theoretical foundation of the medical act, later becoming one of his assistants at the Institute of Topographic Anatomy and Experimental Surgery in Bucharest.[2]
During his specialization, he worked in several hospitals in Bucharest, and in 1903 he permanently moved to Galați as the primary physician and chief surgeon of the "St. Spyridon" Hospital (January 3, 1903).[3] Having meanwhile become a military doctor, he also stood out on the social level, as the main animator of the actions organized by the Tuberculosis Prophylaxis Society, the National Society of Red Cross - Galaţi branch and the "Public Assistance" Society from Galați. He was a member of the initiative committee that organized the establishment of the Popular University of Galați in 1914.[2] For 24 years, until 1927, the year of his death, he carried out an intense medical activity,[4]: 74 recognized both in the country and abroad. Thus, he became a corresponding member of the Surgical Society in Paris, his name being cited in prestigious medical journals around the world, such as Deutsche Chirurgie (1905), Bibliographia medica (1903), Archiv für klinische Chirurgie (1906), Revue de chirurgie (1905), Revue de gynécologie et de chirurgie abdominale (1904), Archives provinciales de chirurgie (1901), in which Dr. Carnabel's operations and surgical techniques are mentioned.[2]
In an era when the means of rapid communication were still at the pioneering stage, the news about the skill of the surgeon Alexandru Carnabel spread quickly, the doctor ended up being sought by patients who came, as if on a pilgrimage, from all over Moldavia, from Bessarabia and from Dobrogea. In addition to the operations he was doing, Al. Carnabel also contributed to the prevention of tuberculosis, a condition that was often fatal in that era. Through the interest he showed for public health, Al. Carnabel approached the world of the needy, whom he helped as much as he could.[5]
Alexandru Carnabel was totally dedicated to his profession, but he also supported Romanian literature and art, being a founding member of some cultural circles or institutions, such as the "Cercul Cultural" and "Intim Club" from Galați. As Moise N. Pacu remarked, "Dr. Carnabel had succeeded, as president and surgeon, in making a transfusion of literature, especially in some evenings when the pagan temple of the goddess Fortuna became a solemn Academy, and the soirées - a big gala...".[2]
In the period leading up to the First World War, the Galaţi branch of the National Society of Red Cross carried out an intense activity for the preparation of hospitals for the wounded; the main animator of this action was doctor Alexandru Carnabel. At the beginning of 1915 everything needed for a hospital with 120 beds had been collected, and by November 1915 hospitals for the wounded were installed in almost all the schools in the city.[4]: 74 On 25 Aug. 1916, Carnabel was appointed Chief physician of the Galati Hospitals established by the Red Cross.[2] As noted by the press of the time, "all the seriously wounded passed, in Galați, through the hands of the valuable surgeon Dr. Carnabel, who from the dawn of the day until midnight, during this period of agglomeration of the wounded, selflessly and wholeheartedly fulfilled this holy duty.[1]"
After Romania's entry into the First World War, following the military campaign of 1916, when two-thirds of the territory of the Romanian Old Kingdom had been occupied by the armies of the Central Powers, the doctor Captain Alexandru Carnabel was evacuated to the south of Russia the following year, together with several hospitals in Romania (totalling around 30,000 patients), becoming Chief physician of the hospitals in Odesa.[6]: 15 After the war, he returned to Galați, continuing his medical activity until 1927,[4]: 74 when his health caused him to retire from the intense activity he carried out with selflessness .
After the death of doctor Alexandru Carnabel, which occurred in Focșani on August 10, 1927, a committee headed by Cristache D. Theodoru, mayor of Galați, initiated a public subscription for the creation of a bronze bust of doctor Carnabel. The bust was executed by the sculptor Oscar Späthe and was placed on a plinth in Romulus Street, being inaugurated on May 25, 1931.[7]: 200 Currently, the bust can be found in the courtyard of the "Elena Doamna" Psychiatric Hospital in Galați, and a street in the city also bears the name of the one who introduced "real surgery, based on science" to the Danube city.[2]
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