Professor Doctor Carol Davila, General: the founder

On August 24, 2009 there will have been 125 years from the death of Professor Doctor Carol Davila, General. This article could have had the name " The Merits of Carol Davila " or " The Heritage of Carol Davila " or " A MAN for a nation ". It is clear that Professor Doctor Carol Davila, General was the founder of many institutions, contributing significantly and decisively to the progress of the Romanian society, permanently living and thinking to the benefit of the patients. He was an astonishing personality who gained the patients' over and remained in their minds for always, due to the realization of the equality between promise and deed. He was an exceptional doctor, founder of the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy, who dedicated himself to his job bringing rigueur and professionalism where only good intentions and amateurism were present, creating an ordered, meaningful structure, in which he was able to realize whatever his visionary spirit had thought and wanted, thanks to his exceptional will and tenacity. The man whose visiting card, at the end of his life, was composed of only one word: DAVILA, was born on April 8, 1828 in Avila, Italy, near Parma. His name was believed to be Charles Antoine Francois by some; others believed that his name was Carlos Antonio Francesco d'Avila. Some sources state the fact that he was the son of the musician Franz Liszt and the Countess d'Agoult and others say he was the son of the same Liszt (who was only 17 years old in 1828?!) and Mrs. Crig (or de Krick). However, it is certain that Carol Davila did not enjoy talking about " biographies ". He lived in Frankfurt-Main, Germany his first 10 years of life, and then he went to Limoges, France (where he began studying French in high school). Between 1843 and 1845 he ended up in Nantes, as a student trainee, in Leon le Sant's drugstore. It is probable that this was the moment he started to think with pleasure to the pharmaceutical techniques and to which, later, have become the famous " Davila drops " – the tincture made up of peppermint oil, rhubarb, alcoholic extract of cinnamon and tincture of opium, which were beneficial in reducing vomiting in cholera. After 1845 he continued the high school in Angers, graduating in 1847. He worked as a stagier pharmacist in C. …