Prof. Dr. Ana Aslan, MD, became well known internationally for her studies on the effect of procaine on the regulation of the autonomic nervous system, studies that she began in 1949. After a 3-year prospective study, she developed a medicine (Gerovital H3) that she prescribed for the prevention of aging, The Mayo Clinic reports.

The first drug created to delay the aging process, Gerovital H3 , was developed by Prof. Ana Aslan , who initiated a complex, multidimensional approach to assess the phenomenon of human aging: the fundamental research of intimate processes at the cellular and sub-cellular levels involved in transformations that accompany aging; assessing changes in the human body over the years; the implications of the aging phenomenon at the level of large human collectives - social gerontology.

The so-called AsIan therapy became very popular and was used not only in Romania but also in many other European countries.

Prof. Ana AsIan established a busy clinical practice in Otopeni (near Bucharest), where her patients included many famous politicians, artists, and actors who hoped to obtain a never ending life. Convinced that aging was a disease that could be prevented, she formulated the concept of gerontoprophylaxis in 1976.

Prof. Ana Aslan also became a pioneer in social medicine. In 1982, she was one of the organizers of the World Meeting for the Third Age (Golden Age) in Vienna, Austria, and received the Leon Bernard Award (named for the noted French biologist-physician \[1872-1934\]) from the World Health Organization. She had a huge international following; her archives contain more than 13,000 letters from 123 countries, The Mayo Clinicnotes.

Convinced that aging was a disease that could be prevented, Prof. Dr. Ana Aslan, MD, formulated the concept of gerontoprophylaxis in 1976.

All over Romania, Ana Aslan supervised the establishment of Geriatric Clinics.

An old dream of Ana and Constantin L. Parhon: the establishment of an all- encompassing Geriatric care for elderly people, not only for the treatment of the obvious symptoms, but also for prophylaxis.

218 Geriatric Clinics were established in the country. Every Rumanian male and female had the right to go for a free ASLAN cure 3 times a year.

During this time, the worlds first Geriatric Hotel Clinic were opened. In her opening speech for the Park Hotel Clinic in July 1974, Ana Aslan named the principles which were the basis of these institutions. Qualified medical examination and care in a hotel atmosphere. Patients recovered better in the atmosphere of the hotel than in a sterile and functional hospital. Mainly for patients from the West, who were being treated in Romania after the ASLAN method, some very comfortable medical centers were established in hotels. They were situated in regions which were known to be tourist attractions, for instance at the sea. This is how the ASLAN therapy attracted foreign currency for Romania.