A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OVER THE
LEGAL REGLEMANTATIONS OF THE
PHARMACEUTICAL PRACTICE IN THE
ROMANIAN PROVINCES. FIRST HEALTH LAW IN ROMANIA.
MARIA BESCIU, N. MARCU, VALENTINA SOROCEANU*
”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest
*corresponding author: valentina_soroceanu@yahoo.com
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Abstract:

Historical, social and ideological conditions caused uneven development of pharmacies in Romanian provinces (namely Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania). In Transylvania (in Sibiu) opened the first pharmacy called “The Eagle” in the fifteenth century (1494). Much later, “Colţea” Hospital was established in Bucharest (1705) with its own pharmacy since 1715, and in Iasi, the first pharmacy opened in 1757, together with “St. Spiridon” Hospital.
In 1812 it was published in Vienna, the Austrian Pharmacopoeia, Ist  Edition, which together with IInd to Vth editions, were officially used in the Romanian provinces.
In December 1862, the first edition of the Romanian Pharmacopoeia was published, which was written at the initiative of Carol Davila by a committee under the leadership of C.C. Hepites.
After the Organic Regulations of Wallachia (1831) and Moldavia (1832) and after the first Romanian Pharmacopoeia, an important regulation was the first health law (1874).
The Health Law of 1874 included in Chapter III aspects regarding the functioning of a pharmacy, as follows: “Pharmacy supervision”, “New establishment and termination of concessions”, “Pharmaceutical Personnel”, “The dispensing of medicines by staff not represented by concessional pharmacists”, “Pharmaceuticals Corporations”, “Transitional measures”.

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