Iasi Society of Physicians and Naturalists (SPN) was established in 1830-1833. It was the first scientific association in South-East Europe. Its founders – Dr. Mihail Zotta, from Bukovina, and Dr. Iacob Czihak, from Bavaria– aimed at covering scientific, particularly medical, development and overall progress of Moldavia and Wallachia. Concurrently Romanian born scientists from Banat, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia became SPN members along with scholars illustrating other ethnic groups and states. Besides Count Kisseleff, other famous SPN honorary members were Humboldt, Berzelius, Haeckel, Hufeland, Koch, Waldeyer, Bright, Guthrie, Liston, Schönlein, De Martonne, a.s.o. Outstanding Moldavian SPN members openly supported Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia. Not haphazardly in the SPN headquarters the unionist party appointed Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the sole candidate to Moldavia's throne, on January 3, 1859. On January 5, Cuza was officially elected the Principality Ruling Prince and on January 24, he was equally voted as Wallachia's Prince: ”Small Romania” emerged. In March 1918, a Bessarabian delegation representing the Moldavian Democratic Republic came to Iasi, headed by Prime Minister Daniel Ciugureanu, a medical doctor and urologist, and President Ion Inculet, a doctor in physics. Petru Poni, Romanian Academy President, and Constantin Bacaloglu, SPN President, among others, welcomed the guests, inviting them to visit the SPN building and its small Museum reminding Cuza's triumph in 1859. A prominent politician and a hero, Dr. Ciugureanu worked as a urology specialist both in Bessarabia and Romania. Indeed, many doctors not only promoted modernity and sciences, but also defended dignity, liberty and spiritual ideals.