Leon Sculy Logothetides

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, Principality of Moldavia – died in 1912, Iași, Kingdom of Romania)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 Chamber of Deputies) 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 boyar installed in Piatra Neamț, and Caliopi Caraghioz. He had a brother, Vasile Sculy (1844–1918), lawyer, MP and senator, 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 Paris, followed by medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montpellier and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris.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 Anatomy and Histology 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 in 1881, he was the first dean 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'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 pleural empyema.S. Vasiliu, Şt. Georgescu
"Contribuţii la istoricul decorticării pulmonare"
''Jurnalul de Chirurgie'', Iași, 2006, Vol. II, Nr. 3 , pp. 332-5.

Introducing asepsis and antisepsis, sterilization of equipment in an autoclave 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, Ion Tănăsescu, Paul Anghel, and Nicolae Hortolomei.

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1853 births
1912 deaths
People from Piatra Neamț
Romanian people of Greek descent
Romanian surgeons
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
Academic staff of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
University of Paris alumni
People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia