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Nothing seems more definitive than illness. Otherwise, why would we obsessively greet each other with "Let's be/see each other/walk healthy!"? It's true that history has given us enough reasons to fear plagues like plague, cholera or typhus, the great troubles thrown at us by viruses, accompanied by a cohort of smaller but particularly disturbing assistants: from the spleen to "sweet blisters". In addition to anxiety, these agents of death have produced, over time, a multitude of cures, some worthy of the absurd comic stage, others surprisingly effective, as well as an army of charlatans who have exploited people's fears by offering them - it's sad, but it still happens today - miracle cures for big money. But there are also bright figures, dedicated people, through whose work and intelligence thousands of lives were saved and to whom we have a permanent debt of gratitude. BIBLIOGRAPHY: "The incomparable Davila - Through the heart we lived, through the heart we die"; BARASCH, Iuliu, "Pioneering medicine in Wallachia"; BĂRBULESCU, Constantin, "Romania of doctors. Doctors, peasants and rural hygiene in Romania (1860-1910)"; BRAVICIANU, D., Notions of Hygiene and Popular Medicine"; BUJOREAN, George, "Diseases, medicines and medicinal plants"; CRĂINICEANU, Gheorghe, "Hygiene of the Romanian peasant"; GOMOIU, Victor, "Church and medicine"; MAJURU, Adrian, "The Minovici family - spiritual universe"; MANOLESCU, N., "Hygiene of the peasant"; SAMARIAN, Pompei, "Medicine and pharmacy in the Romanian past, 1382-1775".