Interesul populaţiei româneşti pentru literatura medicală la începutul secolului al XIX-lea
Romanian Population Interest in Medical Literature in the Early XIX-th Century

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Summary/Abstract: Plague is one of the big tragic events in European history, considered as a real hotbed of demographic decline nearly four centuries in a row. In the first four decades of the seventeenth century, in Transylvania there were countless plagues that killed over 350,000 people. The medical, demographic, economic and administrative problems in the eighteenth century Transylvania urged the local doctors to take measures in order to stop the epidemic. Unlike other European countries, in lands inhabited by Romanians, medical books about the plague appeared quite late, only at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The first medical books that contained information related to outbreaks of plague were written by Gavriil Vineţchi and Samuel Pataki.

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