SOME PHARMACISTS FROM THE HISTORY OF
HOMEOPATHY IN ROMANIA.
HONORIUS POPESCU^1–3, GEORGE DAN MOGOŞANU³*,
RALUCA PRAŢA⁴
1Académie Internationale d’Histoire de la Pharmacie
2Department of Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy,
“Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 12 Ion Creangă
Street, 400010 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
3Department of Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2–4 Petru Rareş
Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania
4National Medicines Agency, 48 Aviator Sănătescu Street, sector 1,
011478 Bucharest, Romania
*corresponding author: mogosanu2006@yahoo.com
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Abstract:

The pharmacists were the first authorized for the preparation of homeopathic remedies, before their industrial production. In Romania, in Bucharest, during the XIXth century, Iulius Rissdörfer and Friederich Nierescher were the first preparators of remedies. In the first mid of the XXth century the names of Erich Müller and Eugen Wittmayer in Sibiu, Dimitrie Caba, Iosef Lăzăroiu, Victor Iacobi and Alexandru Pop in Bucharest were associated with homeopathy. In 1947, Iacobi and Pop take part in the committee that founded the first Romanian Society of Homeopathy, immediately suppressed. After the political interdiction of homeopathy, in 1947 Victor Iacobi remained the only preparator of remedies in Romania, home working. In 1970, Iacobi instructed Cezarina Ţuchel. In 1981, the pharmacists Honorius Popescu, Sorin Leucuţa and Mihai Kory, from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Cluj, expressed and legalized in a contract the possibility of supplying the Romanian patients with remedies exclusively manufactured for the German market. In the Compartment of Homeopathic Remedies has worked Laurenţia Ilea, and nowadays Romana Pop. Carmen Ponoran and Nelly Kinga Olah assure the quality of the products of “PlantExtrakt” Company, which in 1992 takes over and then developed the technical and scientific experience accumulated in the Microproduction Laboratory of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Cluj. In 1990, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bucharest, Professor Dumitru Dobrescu PhD introduced the university lectures of homeopathy for the students of the 5th year. The Certificate of Complementary Studies of Homeopathic Pharmacy is granted on the basis of a postgraduate training in two classes: the first, common with the physicians, and the second, specific for the pharmacists and organized at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bucharest by Professor Pharm. Aurelia Nicoleta Cristea, Ph.D.

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