title: [Three centuries of surgery at Colţea Hospital].
abstract: The authors present the evolution of surgery at Colţea Hospital during the last three centuries. After a brief history of the Colţea hospital and its masters surgeons, the attention is drawn on the masters efforts to optimize the care, equipment and surgery techniques, things that became of national and world-wide importance.
authors.affiliation: Clinica de Chirurgie, Spitalul Colţea, Bucureşti.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Angelescu
authors.forename: T r
authors.initials: Tr
authors.lastname: Burcoş
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jitea
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Berevoescu
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000266:history; D000985:Antisepsis / Q000266:history; D001207:Asepsis / Q000266:history; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006773:Hospitals, Municipal / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D012383:Romania; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history