Child health in Istanbul: Dr. G.B. Violi and his monthly La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazı Etfal (19091914)
Abstract
Dr. Giovanni Battisa Violi (Modena 1849–İstanbul 1928), who practiced pediatrics in Turkey for more than fifty years, was the founder of the first vaccine institute (Etablissement Vaccinogène, 1881), as well as the first children’s hospital (l’Hôpital SaintGeorges pour les Enfants Malades, 1895) in the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Violi established a new children’s hospital in Istanbul in 1905 (l’Hôpital International des Enfants à Chichli), and published a monthly journal for child health (consisting of two separate parts in French and Turkish) entitled: La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi Etfal between 1909 and 1914.
The periodical edited by Dr. Violi displayed an international editorial board of renowned pediatricians from Europe (Ausset, Baginsky, Bokay, Escherich, Fischl, Hutinel, Monti, and others), and prominent local physicians from different communities. The journal aimed at promoting stateoftheart knowledge in child health, addressing both professionals and parents. Another equally important objective of La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi Etfal was to publicise the humanitarian work accomplished in the children’s hospital under Dr. Violi’s direction. The journal included health and mortality statistics issued by the Medical Office (Conseil de Santé) for the Ottoman capital, a world review of the pediatric literature, notes on therapeutics, medical and child care consultations with mothers, as well as articles on clinical research, some of them being of historical significance.
The publication of La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi Etfal was interrupted by international political events in 1911, and the enterprise came to an end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Extensive research conducted todate has revealed that a complete collection is not available in libraries. The table of contents of the collated copies has been appended for this reason. Also noteworthy is the fact that the publication of this pioneering journal (in French and Turkish) came much earlier than English periodicals in pediatric medicine.
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Abstract
Dr. Giovanni Battisa Violi (Modena 1849–İstanbul 1928), who practiced
pediatrics in Turkey for more than fifty years, was the founder of the first
vaccine institute (Etablissement Vaccinogène, 1881), as well as the first
children’s hospital (l’Hôpital SaintGeorges pour les Enfants Malades, 1895) in
the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Violi established a new children’s hospital in Istanbul
in 1905 (l’Hôpital International des Enfants à Chichli), and published a
monthly journal for child health (consisting of two separate parts in French and
Turkish) entitled: La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi Etfal between
1909 and 1914.
The periodical edited by Dr. Violi displayed an international editorial
board of renowned pediatricians from Europe (Ausset, Baginsky, Bokay, Escherich, Fischl, Hutinel, Monti, and others), and prominent local physicians
from different communities. The journal aimed at promoting stateoftheart
knowledge in child health, addressing both professionals and parents. Another
equally important objective of La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi
Etfal was to publicise the humanitarian work accomplished in the children’s
hospital under Dr. Violi’s direction. The journal included health and mortality
statistics issued by the Medical Office (Conseil de Santé) for the Ottoman
capital, a world review of the pediatric literature, notes on therapeutics, medical
and child care consultations with mothers, as well as articles on clinical
research, some of them being of historical significance.
The publication of La Pédiatrie en Turquie / Türkiye’de Emrazi Etfal
was interrupted by international political events in 1911, and the enterprise
came to an end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Extensive research
conducted todate has revealed that a complete collection is not available in
libraries. The table of contents of the collated copies has been appended for this
reason. Also noteworthy is the fact that the publication of this pioneering
journal (in French and Turkish) came much earlier than English periodicals in
pediatric medicine.
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Research Articles |
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| Publication Date | June 1, 2004 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2004 Volume: 5 Issue: 2 |
