PMID: 11624895Jan 1, 1993Paper

Abolishment of the office of the Ottoman head physician

Tıp tarihi araştırmaları = History of medicine studies
A Altintaş

Abstract

The office of the Ottoman head physician which had been an important organisation for 400 years, was abolished by a decree given by Sultan Abdülmecid on 17 April 1850. This article discusses the factors leading to this abolishment. Some researchers say that the foundation of the Council of Health Affairs (Meclisi Umuru Tibbikye) in the Medical school (Mektebi Tibbiye) just before the decree, might be one of the reasons. Here it is concluded that this factor was not responsible for the decree because the duty of presiding management and chairmanship of the council was already assigned to the Head Physician. There was also another council which had been founded ten years before the decree and it was equipped with the same functions. When the point whether the decree was due to the Head Physician Salih Efendi is studies, we see that didn't have any influence on the said decision, although Salih Efendi had been appointed by Sultan Abdülmecid as the Head Physician and as the Minister of the Medical School both of his duties were withdrawn from him. But later he was again appointed as the Head Physician by the same Sultlan. Another reason was said to be the transfer of the Head physician's duties to the Minister of the Medical School...Continue Reading

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