[Surgical emergencies in organizing the health care of Bucharest: stages and their historical significance (1906-1990)].

Typical for organizing modern health care in surgical emergencies in Bucharest is the establishment in 1933 of Surgical Emergency Hospital (one of the first ones from Europe having this unique profile) in the building and under the management of the Ambulance Society, founded since 1906. The hospital went through many stages of activity until 1960 when it became a part of another medical institution,with a larger vision in organizing surgical emergencies in Bucharest-Emergency Hospital Floreasca. Here it was developed the first independent ITU (1955) and several original researches were done on traumatic shock.

[The scope of the foundation of the "Victor Babeş" Institute for the development of public health in Romania].

Presentation of the unpublished documents, deposited with the State Archives Dept. in bucharest, referring to the foundation of "V. Babeş" Institute enriches the specialty literature, vouching the medical-historic significance of the very moment it was founded.