[HOSPITAL REPORT BY JULIUS WIETING PASHA: GÜLHANE BECOMES AN INDEPENDENT HOSPITAL] Gülhâne hakkinda üçüncü layîha: 1326... [i.e., The third memorandum on Gülhâne: Changes at Gülhâne from the year 1326 to 1328]

Complete title: [HOSPITAL REPORT BY JULIUS WIETING PASHA: GÜLHANE BECOMES AN INDEPENDENT HOSPITAL] گلهانه حقنده اوچونجو لایحه / Gülhâne hakkinda üçüncü layîha: 1326 senesinden 1328 senesine kadar Gülhâne’deki tebeddülât. Gülhâne Serîriyâti Külliyât-i Mesaîsi Aded 14. [i.e., The third memorandum on Gülhâne: Changes at Gülhâne from the year 1326 to 1328].

WIETING, JULIUS (PASHA) (1868-1922).

Matbaa-yi Hayriye ve Sürekâsi, Istanbul, 1912.

Original light brown wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 37 p., many statistical tables. Stains on the front cover, minor chipping on the corners. Otherwise, a good copy.

The very rare first and only edition of this report in expanded book form, describing the activities of Gülhane Hospital between 1910 and 1912, when Julius Wieting (later known as “Pasha”) was invited to Ottoman Istanbul during the Balkan Wars period, and served as Gülhane's chief physician. The report was first published as an article under the title “Public Health in the Year 1327: The Current State of Gülhane Hospital” in Tababet-i Hazıra journal, Year 4, Issue 73, dated 1 March 1328 / 14 March 1911.

The work contains valuable information on many subjects, including practical clinical applications in the hospital wards, the relationship between Hilal-i Ahmer (the Red Crescent) and Gülhane, the bandage manufacturing workshop, the medical school, hospital administration, scientific demonstrations, conferences, and publishing activities.

From its opening in 1898 until the end of the First World War, Gülhane Hospital was administered by German physicians. Between 1907 and 1914, it was directed by Julius Wieting, who thereafter took part in the war alongside the Turks.

The initial phase of Gülhane Hospital, which opened on 30 December 1898, is known as the Rieder-Deycke period [Dr. Robert Rieder (1894-1904) and Dr. Georg Deycke (1904-1907).

Following the loss of function of the Haydarpaşa Training Hospital, the internship undertaken there by physicians graduating from the Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahane (Imperial School of Medicine / military medical school) was transferred to Gülhane. After completing one year of clinical and practical training, these physicians received their diplomas and began active service as military doctors. Inheriting this legacy, Wieting Pasha found Gülhane in an orderly and well-established condition. After the proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy, efforts were made in 1909 to incorporate Gülhane into the newly established Faculty of Medicine, created through the merger of the civil and military medical schools. However, through memoranda he submitted to the Ministry of War, Wieting Pasha succeeded in keeping Gülhane separate from the faculty, thereby transforming it into an independent institution for the training of military physicians. During this period, the hospital's name was changed from Gülhane Seririyat Hospital to "Gülhane Military School of Training and Clinical Medicine."

After he earned his doctorate in medicine (Dr. med.) in Marburg in 1893, Wieting underwent surgical training in Hanover, Mainz, and Kassel as an assistant physician. As a reserve staff physician, he served as an assistant at the Municipal Hospital in Bremerhaven, at the Women’s Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn, and in the surgical department of the New General Hospital Eppendorf. In 1900, he joined the Second Boer War with the German Red Cross. Thereafter, he was appointed professor by the Prussian Crown. In 1902, he married the Transylvanian-born Marie Auguste Markus (1880-1922) from Sighișoara (Schäßburg).

In the same year, he was appointed by the government of the Ottoman Empire to Constantinople. There, he taught surgery and orthopedics at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy, which had been founded by Robert Rieder. He published a vascular surgical procedure for the treatment of atherosclerotic gangrene, which was named after him. In 1908, he succeeded Georg Deycke as Medical Director and introduced the Medical Gülhane Evenings. At the same time, he served as the Imperial German Embassy physician. As an advisor to the head of the Turkish medical service, he took part in the First Balkan War in 1912-13. In 1914, he entered the First World War on the Turkish side, ultimately serving as a Turkish Major General of the Medical Corps. Like his two predecessors from the Corps, Rieder and Deycke, he received the honorary title of Pasha.

From 1915 to 1918, Wieting Pasha served as a senior staff physician (Oberstabsarzt) in the German Army. In 1919, he became Chief Physician of the Hamburg Sea Hospital of the Nordheim Foundation in Sahlenburg.

Özege 6394., We couldn’t trace any copies in WorldCat.