Division of Pharmacodynamics at Refik Saydam Central Institute of Hygiene was founded by Ord. Prof. Dr. Paul Pulewka (Namal & Reisman, 2006). He was also the foundation stone in the establishment of pharmacology and pharmacological controls in Turkey. He began his education in Medicine in Munich and graduated from Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) Prussia, Medical Faculty, in 1923.



He went on to receive doctorates in both pharmacology and toxicology from the Pharmacology Institute of the same university. He was forced to leave Germany also because his wife was Jewish. Pulewka’s found their way by train to Turkey in October of 1935. While in Turkey, Paul Pulewka founded the pharmacology departments at the Refik Saydam Public Health Institute in Ankara and the Medical Faculty of Ankara University. The pictures on the left are the mirror images of my career at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology where Pulewka was rescued himself into it and spent all his time to establish the department there. He would be working there until 1949. 30 years later in 1980 we will be breathing the atmosphere where you could witness the signature of this great Scientist everywhere. In the old days smoked papers were being prepared and were being mounted on trommels for the recordings of the isolated organ. I am so proud served there as the Chief of the Pharmacology Department and exercised all my effort to improve one step more the academic achievements and the control function of the Ministry of Health there.