Apariţia primelor societăţi şi asociaţii de medicină veterinară din România (I)
The establishment of the first veterinary medicine societies and associations in Romania (I)

Summary/Abstract: The “Statute of the Romanian Society of Veterinary Medicine” drawn in the first meeting of May 15, 1871, wasvoted in the General Assembly of August 14–16, 1871, chaired by Mauriciu Colben. Therefore, in 1879, Alexandru Locusteanu, Mihai Măgureanu, Gheorghe Perşu and Panait Constantinescu, published “The Veterinary Surgeon”. Succeeding to overcome certain difficulties, 33 veterinary surgeons met on May 10–12, 1882 in Bucharest for the First Congress of Veterinary Medicine, the first of this kind in Romania. During these meetings, participants debated on important issues in veterinary pathology at the time: the foot-and-mouth disease, of equine glanders, tuberculosis, the bovine gastro-entero-nephritis (babesiosis) etc. The topics of the Congress, set in 1881, included the followingsubjects: sanitary police, animal husbandry, public hygiene, pathology, miscellanea. Once the Society of Veterinary Medicine was relaunched, „The Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Husbandry, Hygiene and Rural Economy” also appeared. It was established in 1888 too, by I. Şt. Furtună, and had an Annex, the Bulletin of the Society of Veterinary Medicine. The Society existed until July 21, 1949, when, after this last meeting, it was discontinued abusively by the communist regime. Because the centenary of the Romanian Society of Veterinary Medicine wasclosing, a group of teaching staff members from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest started in the spring of 1970, the activities necessary to resume the activities of the Romanian Society of Veterinary Medicine: it was re-established on May 15, 1971, 22 years after its discontinuation and one hundred years after its foundation.At first, a Commission was appointed to draw up draft statutes of the Association; afterwards, on June 29, 1914, it held its constituent meeting of the General Association of Veterinarians in Romania, chaired by Prof. Al. Locusteanu. During this meeting, at which 138 veterinarians sent solidarity messages, voted to elect the first committee status and then intervening the First World War until August 19, 1919, by decree-law, the association was recognized as a legal and moral person. Even before getting official recognition, it had a “Bulletin” published from January 1, 1919, in the first issue of Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, which was none other than the former Veterinary Magazine, founded in 1888 by I. Şt. Furtună, and which, under the new title, was offered to the Association as property. Enthusiastically created by an initiative group, the Association, through art. 4 ofthe Statute, mentions the goal of its existance, namely: “to cultivate the sense of esteem, fraternity and peer support, defend members’ rights and general professional interests, to create an economic background, to set up a bulletin and to build their own local library, conference room and so on”. All the goals set have been performed for over 30 years because in 1949, the association ceased to exist, similarly to the Society for Veterinary Medicine to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1871. After 1989, the General Association of Veterinarians in Romania was reestablished and took over the duties of the Romanian Society of Veterinary Medicine. On May 8–11, 2011, in Bucharest, the prestigious national event “The XIth Congress of the General Association of Veterinarians in Romania” was held under the title „2011 – World Year of Veterinary Medicine”. As an expression of professional solidarity, between 1929 and 1932, the Association built an imposing building by means of the voluntary contributions of its members, a building lying in front of the Cișmigiu Garden, which wrongly hosts the Ministry of Justice today. The building of the General Association of Veterinarianswas taken unjustly by the Ministry of Justice and today it hosts the National Institute of Magistracy. An extremely important achievement of the Association wasthe Law for regulating the exercise of veterinary profession and the establishment of the College of Veterinarians, on November 26, 1938. “The College of Romanian Veterinarians – as stipulated by law – is the professional organization of veterinarians whose goal is to monitor and ensure the prestige preservation of the College of Veterinarians, taking the necessary measures to prevent or punish the acts of professional misconduct and veterinaryethics”.

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