Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 5. (Budapest, 1957)

Dr. JÁKI GYULA: Adatok Schoepf Merei Ágost élettörténetéhez

of Pavia. (Fig. 2.) shows the application, written in Italian, for admission, in wchich he tells that on request by his guardian he has been engaded in agricultural and commercial activities. He has realised, however, that he is unfit for that work and has decided to become a medical student. He was matriculated to the university of Pavia by the leave of the Governor on March 2, 1828. As to previous studies, he wrote in his history sheet that he had completed his studies in Pozsony. In the archives of the university of Pavia there are to be found 2 certificates according to which he had qualified in the first class of philosophy in the Sopron, and in the second in the Pozsony lyceum. (Fig. 3.), thus, he did complete high school in that latter town. It seems that his guardian did not approve of his decision and he seems to have parted with his guardian, as indicated by the fast that on enrolling for the second year he erased the name of his guardian in his history sheet. He completed the 5-year study of medicine at the then renowned university of Pavia and asked for permission to pass the final examinations on the 9th of September, 1832 (Fig. 4.). After qualifying "valde bene" from both, he asked permission to attend the examinations for obtaining the degree of doctor of surgery. (Fig. 5.) He submitted for judgement a medicolegal report written in Italian, which was subsequently approved by professor Platner. In that report he gave an account of the examination of the body of an infant found dead. We have the original copies of the two case histories enclosed to the application for examination. These have the specific interest from the Hungarian point of view that Ágost Schoepf Merei was the first in this country to introduce the practice of keeping regular records of cases. Both case histories are carefully, regularly kept; one is that of a case of angioitis, the other that of a patient with scabies. His medical diploma bears the date September 17, 1832 and a copy of it is shown in (Fig. 6.), with the signatures of the leaders of the university. He handed in his doctorial dissertation under the title "De Ischuria". The 52-page work was printed in the printing office of the university of Pavia (Fig. 7.). The protector of the dissertation was Flarer, professor of ophtalmology and the dissertation was dedicated to Panizza, professor of anatomy (Fig. 8.), shows the preface of the dissertation. Although Schoepf Merei had been still suffering from the sequelae to an arsenicum poisoning acquired at the ana-