Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 3. (Budapest, 1956)

J. BALOGH, M. D.: The hungarian traumatic surgery in the first part of the 19th century

generation and to the practical aspects of the everyday practice. I think of the generation, which cared for the casualties of the War of Liberation of 1948/49. a war of decisive importance in the history of Hungary. I collected the material from the regularly published medical journals of this country. The publications selected were exclusively the ones written by Hungarian authors on problems of surgery. The essence of each publication was summarized in brief. A total of 126 original articles on traumatic surgery from 30 volumes of 3 Hungarian periodicals of that age were extracted. The first medical periodical in Hungary was the „Orvosi Tár" (in the following: O. T.), first published in 1831. This was followed, in 1857, by the „Orvosi Hetilap" (in the following: O. H.) and, in. 1861, by „Gyógyászat" (in the following: Gy.). It is noted in this connection that there had been also earlier attempts at starting a Hungarian medical newspaper. In order to facilitate a better insight into the rather large material, other sources were also explored. The first among these, in chronological order, is the work published by Eckstein, a Budapest professor of surgery, entitled: Casus très chirurgici. The other works of reference are: Grundzüge der operativen Chirurgie (published in 1838) by Imre Réczey, in Pest, „A szabadságharc honvédorvosai" (The Honvéd Surgeons of the War of Liberation) by Zétény, „A magyar orvosi rend története" (The History of the Hungarian Medical Order) by Demény, „Útmutató a hadsebészetben" (A Guide in Field Surgery) by Prochnow (Budapest, 1892). The Hungarian surgeons of the 19th century were constant readers of the pertaining literature published in foreign countries and regularly reported (in abriged form) on the more interesting articles and books. It is understandable that the surgical reports of that period dealt almost exclusively with the problems of traumatic cases. The first medical newspaper (periodical) of this country was published in a period of high political importance: in the period of national revival. The difficulties, including the linguistic ones, were great. A HunŐS