Leon Sculy Logothetides (also known as Sculy Logotheti or only Sculy, sometimes Scully or, erroneously, Scully-Logothely)Mihai Sorin Rădulescu
"Genealogii - Sculy-Logothetides"
''Ziarul financiar - Ziarul de Duminică'', 28 iulie 2006. (born in 1853,

Piatra Neamț Piatra Neamț (; ; ) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its very privileged location in the Divisions of the Carpathians, Eastern Carpathian mountains, it is con ...

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– died in 1912,

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)Ionel Maftei, ''Personalități ieșene: Omagiu'', Vol. 2, Comitetul de cultură și educație socialistă al județului Iași, 1975, p. 241. was a Romanian politician (member of the

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) and surgeon, professor at the Faculty of Medicine from Iași, one of the founders of the surgery school in Iași.

Biography

Leon Sculy descended from a family of Greek origin, his parents being Sculy Logothetides (Sculy, the surname, was transformed in name in the next generation), low-ranking

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installed in Piatra Neamț, and Caliopi Caraghioz. He had a brother, Vasile Sculy (1844–1918), lawyer, MP and

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, married to Sofia Exarhu, and a sister, Cleopatra. The second Leon Sculy of this family was his nephew, son of Vasile, married to Princess Marguerite Marie Catherine Caradja (1893–1933) from the Caradja aristocratic family. Sculy attended high school in

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, followed by medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the

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and the Faculty of Medicine of the

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.N. Angelescu, E. Popa
"Écoles chirurgicales roumaines de tradition française"
''e-mémoires de l'Académie Nationale de Chirurgie'', 2007, 6(3):23-30. Obtaining a doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1879, he returned to Iași, and, the same year, he was appointed Associate Professor of

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and

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at the newly created Faculty of Medicine. On 1/13 December 1879 he was in charge of the inaugural lesson at that medical school.Pag
''Scurt istoric al Facultății de Medicină''
, on the site of the University of Medecine and Pharmacy, Iași. Leon Sculy was formed as surgeon in the clinic of Ludovic Russ senior. Named professor of

surgery Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery s ...

in 1881, he was the first

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of the Faculty of Medicine from Iași (1879–1881).
Anuarul Universității Mihăilene Iași 1895–1896
'', Editura Universității Mihăilene, Iași, 1897, p. 53; on the site of the

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in , Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former was converted to a university, the University of , as it was named ...

's Museum. Organizer of the health care, his efforts led to the creation of a second surgical service in Iași, the service in which he approached the surgical treatment of abdominal, thoraco-pulmonary and neurosurgical diseases.N. Angelescu, A. Dima
"Personalități chirurgicale ieșene"
''Jurnalul de Chirurgie'', Iași, 2006, Vol. II, Nr. 4, pp. 424–8. Leon Sculy was the first to practice in Romania, in December 1904 – January 1905, the pulmonary decortication for chronic

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.S. Vasiliu, Şt. Georgescu
"Contribuţii la istoricul decorticării pulmonare"
''Jurnalul de Chirurgie'', Iași, 2006, Vol. II, Nr. 3 , pp. 332-5. Introducing

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and

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, sterilization of equipment in an

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and the use of sterile water for hand washing in his surgical service, Leon Sculy was among the first to use radiology in Romania, installing a diagnostic unit at Saint Spyridon Hospital in Iași.E. Târcoveanu, "Leon Sculy", i
Ctitorii prestigiului: 125 de ani de învățământ medical superior la Iași
Eugen Târcoveanu (ed.), Constantin Romanescu (ed.), Mihai Liţu (ed.), Iași, Editura Gr. T. Popa, 2004, pp. 75-6. Under his leadership were trained personalities of the Romanian surgery school, such as

Ernest Juvara Ernest Juvara (May 5, 1870, Bârlad, Vaslui County – May 5, 1933, Bucharest) was a Romanian physician, innovative in surgical and instrumental techniques. He was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, with contri ...

, Ion Tănăsescu, Paul Anghel, and

Nicolae Hortolomei Nicolae Hortolomei (November 27, 1885 – January 3, 1961) was a Romanian surgeon, director of the Surgery and Urology Clinic at Colțea Hospital in Bucharest, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, titular member of the Romanian Academy, and Minis ...

References

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