Toptaşı Bimarhanesi Sertabibi Dr. Avram de Castro: Bir Biyo-bibliyografi

Year 2012, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 85 - 97, 01.06.2012

Fatih Artvinli

Abstract

1829 yılında İstanbul’da doğan Avram(ino) de Castro, Mekteb-i Tıbbiyeyi
Şahane’den 1859 senesinde mezun olduktan sonra, hükümet tarafından bir
sene süreyle Paris’e gönderilmiştir. Ardından kendi imkânlarıyla İtalya’ya
giderek orada üç sene tahsiline devam etmiş ve dönüşünde, önce kısa süre
Maltepe Hastanesi’nde çalıştıktan sonra 1864 yılında Süleymaniye
Bimarhanesi’ne tabip olarak tayin olmuştur. Başhekim Luigi Mongeri’nin
(1815-1882) yardımcısı olarak işe başlayan Castro, 1873 yılı Kasım ayında
Süleymaniye Bimarhanesi’nin Toptaşı’na nakli ile birlikte burada başhekim
yardımcısı olarak çalışmaya devam etmiştir.
Bimarhane sertabibi L.Mongeri’nin vefat etmesi üzerine, Castro 1882
yılından itibaren Toptaşı Bimarhanesi’ne başhekim olarak tayin olmuştur. 45 yıl
süreyle Osmanlı Devleti’nde tabip olarak çalışan, 1873’ten itibaren 36 yıl
süreyle Toptaşı’nda tabip ve 1882 yılında itibaren ise 27 yıl süreyle bu kurumun
başhekimliğini yapan Castro, İkinci Meşrutiyet’in ilanının ardından 14 Kasım
1908’de emekli edilmiştir. Castro döneminde Toptaşı Bimarhanesi’nde ciddi bir
kapasite sorunu yaşanmış ve 1893 kolera salgınında 86 hasta vefat etmiştir. Dr.
Castro’nun hazırladığı çeşitli adli tıp raporları ve istatistikler, üyesi bulunduğu
Cemiyet-i Tıbbiye-yi Şahane’nin yayın organı olan Gazette Médicale
d’Orient’da (İstanbul) yayımlamıştır.

Keywords

Avram de Castro, Toptaşı Bimarhanesi, 1893 Kolera salgını, psikiyatri tarihi

Dr. Avram de Castro, Director of the Toptaşı Mental Asylum in Scutari: A Bio-bibliography

Abstract

Avram(ino) de Castro, born in 1829 in Istanbul, has been sent to Paris for
a year by the Ottoman government after his graduation from the Imperial
Military Medical School (Mekteb-i Tibbiye-i Şahane) in 1859. He went to Italy
by his own financial means and continued there his education for three more
years. When he returned to Istanbul, he worked at the Maltepe Hospital for a while and then was appointed to the Süleymaniye Lunatic Asylum as a civilian
doctor. He started to work as the assistant of Dr. Luigi Mongeri (1815-1882),
the chief physician of the asylum, and carried on to work in the same position
after Süleymaniye Lunatic Asylum has moved to Toptaşı, Scutari. Following the
death of Dr. L. Mongeri sen. in 1882, Dr. A. de Castro was appointed chief
physician to the asylum. 

Avram de Castro worked as a physician in the Ottoman Empire for about
45 years. He served for 36 years at Toptaşı Lunatic Asylum where he acted as
director between the years 1882-1908. He retired on 14th November 1908,
following the proclamation of the Second Constitutio. During Dr. de Castro’s
administration, the asylum experienced a serious lack of capacity and its patients
suffered greately from the cholera epidemic of 1893. Dr. de Castro authored a
number of medico-legal reports and a few statistics of the Toptaşı Asylum, all
published in the Gazette Medicale d’Orient (Istanbul), the journal of the
Medical Society of Constantinople, of which he was a member. 

Keywords

Avram de Castro, Toptaşı Lunatic Asylum, 1893 Cholera epidemic, history of psychiatry

References

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