Despre câteva măsuri pentru „buna ținere și orânduiala stării sănătății” și despre autorul lor: doctorul Georg Metz
About some measures for “maintaining the state of health” and about their author: the physician Georg Metz

Summary/Abstract: One of the most active physicians concerning the modernizing transformations with respect to medical and sanitary issues in Moldavia in the first decades of the 19th century was Georg Metz. Native from Transylvania, graduate of the Faculty of Medicine from Halle since 1799, doctor Metz is present in the Romanian Principalities starting with the beginning of the 19th century. In 1832 he was appointed responsible for the supervision of the medical activity in the counties Botoșani, Dorohoi, Herța and Suceava. In this position, the physician Metz proposed to the local high officials several measures in order to “maintain the health condition” of the inhabitants. The measures suggested by the doctor Metz reflect, with no doubt, at least two aspects: the level at which Moldavia was situated towards the first half of the 19th century with regard to the collective urban hygiene and the medical education level of the population, as well as to which extent some physicians involved in the attempt to change this situation (promoting some sanitation measures in cities and villages, spreading some hygiene norms among the inhabitants and, last but not least, popularizing the smallpox vaccination).

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