Szerecz Imre (szerk.): Richard Bright utazásai a Dunántúlon 1815 (Veszprém Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, 1970)

pcdition and gratefully acknowledges their services. Bright's contribution to the book dealt with the botanical and zoological material amassed by the expedition and MacKenzie pays tribute to his work. During the Congress in the year 1814 Bright travelled extensively in Hungary, making a comprehensive survey of its geography, scenery, peoples, customs, industries and trade. On his journey home he reached Brussels in time to see something of the treatment in its hospitals of the wounded from the battle of Waterloo. Home again in London, he was soon afterwards elected an assistant physician to the London Fever Hospital, where he contracted a fever which nearly cost him his life. In 1818, he visited the continent again, travelling through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. In 1820. at the age of 31, Richard Bright was appointed as the one and only Assistant Physician to Guy's Hospital. In 1822 Bright was appointed lecturer in materia medica and botany at Guy's, and in 1824 he became a full physician to the Hospital. From that moment he put aside all other interests and settled down to many years of continuous labor. Until then, those interests had been many and various. A linguist and a traveller with an appreciative and discriminating eye, he had been an ardent student not only of medicine but of much else beside. Bright had not been slow to turn to the best possible account the good fortune which had provided him with a welltodo father. It was a mind enriched by travel and by contact with men prominent in science and in all walks of life, that he brought to bear upon the work which was thenforward to engross him. Bright addressed himself to a never ending task, the task of exact diagnosis of detecting in every case of physical disease the nature of the primary cause which had determined its onset. He set before himself a new conception of the responsibilities and aims of every physician. He, himself, made admirable use of his novel method. He died on December 16th 1858, in London. Richard Bright's works relating to Hungary: 1. Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress in the year 1814. Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1818. The story of his travels in Hungary. The illustrations are by him altough 10 were engraved by another hand. 2. On the hills of Badacsony, Szigliget, etc., in Hungary. This article was read before the Geological Society in 1818 and was the direct result of his interest in geology fostered by Babington. Imre Szerecz