Constantin parhon
1874 -

romanian endocrinologist a scientist of world reputation professor at the university of bucharest. member of the romanian academy and member of other romanian and foreign academies and scientific bodies. c. i. parhon was the founder of the romanian school of endocrinology and one of the science founders in the world.
practicing first as a neurologist and then as a psychiatrist, c.i. parhon could investigate the cell structure of the spinal marrow, and demonstrate that there were vegetative centres on the cortex. he succeeded to largely collect clinical evidence as to psychosis, nervous syphylis, epilepsy, multiple hallucinations. he left behind the anatomo-clinical approach made by the then neuropsychiatric medical school, to promote new and original ideas in the field of medical science.
he made fundamental contributions to the progress of endocrinology, and in 1909 he co-authored with m. goldstein the first book on endocrinolog...