Maria Cutarida Cratunescu was the first female doctor in Romania. She founded several important organizations, including the first nursery in a factory to allow working women to have their children supervised. She faced difficulties advancing her career, being denied positions at hospitals, but eventually became a professor of hygiene. She was a pioneer for women in medicine in Romania in the late 19th/early 20th century, opening the path for many other female doctors. She contributed to medical assistance and public health through her work and advocacy.

1. MARIA CUTARIDA
CRATUNESCU 1857-
1919
The first Romanian female doctor

3. PREMIERES
 She was the first Romanian female doctor
 She founded the Societies “The Nursery ” and “Materna”
 She founded the first “creche” (or nursery) in a factory so that
the workers could have the possibility to both work and have their
children supervised

4. In Zurich 1877 she
started to study
medicine
Montpellier
Paris -5 JUNE 1884
thesis “About
hydrorrhea and its
semeiologic
importance in cancers
of the uterine corpus”
She equaled her
studies when she
returned to the
country , and gained
a magna cum laudae

8. THE DIFFICULT EVOLUTION
OF HER CARRIER
 She was denied a place at the Brancovenesc hospital
 She was given a place as professor of hygiene
 In 1885 a job at the Filantropia Hospital
 1886 she was named head of the Hygiene department at the
establishment Elena Doamna
 In 1894 The Eforia of the Civilian Hospitals changed the profile
of the department she was working in

9. HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
 The tobacco factory 1885-1898 where she had supervision over
2000 workers
 1899 the first internal nursery for working women
 1898 she founded the Materna society for poor children
 She was mobilized as doctor during WWI at the Evanghelic
Institute and Internship

10. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
 Various medical and feminist congresses
 The Congress of the feminist actions in Paris from 1900 where she
presented the work Le travail de la femme en Roumanie a statistic on
domains of scientific activity regarding women which have promoted
Romania
 The Congress in Brussels 1907
 The Congress in Copenhagen 1910 in which she presented the action
of Romanian medicine against child mortality

11. REVUE PHILANTROPIQUE
DU 15 JANVIER 1915

12. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE
DE 1900

13. SHE WAS A PATH- OPENER FOR OTHER
WOMEN DOCTORS OF THE YEARS 1900’
 1. Olga secara tulbure(a
inceput studiile in 1880)
 2. Hermina Walch kaminski
(a inceput studiile in 1887)
 3.Elena Puscariu
Densusianu
4.Josephina Pache Protopopescu
5. Ecaterina Arbore Ralli
6. Maria Ropala Cicherschi

14. HERMINA WALSCH
KAMINSKI(1864-1946)
 The first female graduate of medicine in Bucharest
 She also graduated from the Science Faculty
 1890 A study on the hygiene of schools in Bucharest
 She worked at the Tobacco factory and ruled the school of nursing
of the Eforia in Bucharest 1913
 She contributed to the modification of school curricula

15. OLGA SACARA
TULBURE(1856-1929)

17. CITATION

18. CITATION
 In archives d electricite medicale 1894

19. CITATION

20. ELENA PUSCARIU
DENSUSIANU (1875-1965)
The first female professor of
oftalmology with over 100
publications and numerous
scientific communications
Studies in the field of ocular
palpebral tumors , sympatic
oftalmia and trachoma
“20 hereditary familial and
congenital ocular syndromes” 1963
ed Doin Paris

25. PROTOPOPESCU PACHE
JOSEPHINA (1893-1986)
First woman from the specialty
of obstetrics and gynaecology
The first woman hospital
manager she created a mdern
structure formed out of three
departments obstetrics, gyna
ecology, puericulture, with
septic and aseptic fields and
the necessary labs
Citations :Revue francaise de
gynecologie et d obstetrique
1924

39. ECATERINA ARBORE
RALLI(1873-)
1898 communal doctor
of Bucharest , working
at the Coltea Hospital ,
the TB Hospital in
Filaret ,
in 1907 Studies on work
medicine in which she
characterised the
difficulties and
identified specific
problems for working in
each type of industry
In miners she shows
that up to 53 dead
people out of 100 have
lung diseases
She advocates for less
working hours the
building of large
spacious factories with
potable water , light and
possibility to breath
fresh air and where the
workers should wear
special clothes.

43. MARIA ROPALA
CICHERSCHI(1881-1973)
 1924 a Corresponding member of the society of forensic medicine
in France
 1928 A stage in Paris in which she studied legal medicine and
psychiatry
 The first woman pathologist in the world
 A pathologist collaborating with the Main Court House in Iassy

44. ALMA MOHORA
POPOVICIU(1896-1990)
 The first Romanian female stomatologyst 1921
 180 of communications and scientific paper and essays , as She
participated in the first congresses of stomatology in the world
 She also ruled the public stomatology service in Cluj

45. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!