Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 5. (Budapest, 1957)
Dr. JÁKI GYULA: Adatok Schoepf Merei Ágost élettörténetéhez
tomical institute, and was still unwell when stepping on the rostrum, he defended his theses, and won the degree of doctor of medicine and surgery and master of ophtalmology. The certificate in Latin shown in (Fig. 9.) is that required for winning the latter degree. In Pavia Agost Schoepf Merei won not only the above degrees, but also a wife, in the person of Josefa Brambilla, grandchild of the great Brambilla, whom he married after having become a doctor and brought her back to Hungary, to Kőszeg, to his brother-inlaw's house. After recovering from the above mentioned poisoning he worked for a while in Vienna, with professor Hildebrandt, who did everything to keep him there. He was homesick, however, and settled down in Pest, There be established close contact with count István Széchenyi, whom he held in high esteem, as it is obvious from the dedications and letters (Fig. 10.) written to the count. Count István Széchenyi often mentions Schoepf Merei in his diary. Schoepf operated on his son and treated his wife. Ágost Schoepf Merei established in Pest the then fourth hospital for children in the world and started the first pediatrical journal of the world in 1841, entitled "Jahres Beitrag. ..", in German. During the War of Liberation he changed his German name to the Hungarian Merei and joined the Italian legion of colonel Monti, as a volunteer chief surgeon. In 1849, when the government had to leave Budapest for the second time, he sent his wife and two children to Szeged, where his wife died of cholera. The records of her death are still available, but her grave had been washed away by the great flood of Szeged. After the Temesvár battle Schoepf Merei fled the country with his two children and escaped to Turkey. Author presents the pertaining sections of the diary written in Turkey by Gábor Egressy. Finally, his English friends helped him to settle down in Manchester, where he continued his activities for a decade. He established a hospital for children and became a distinguished member of the English medical profession. Also while in England, he wrote a considerable number of reports and treatises. He died in Manchester, in 1858. His daughter married a man of Bombay and his son become an engineer in England. Author's Address: Prof. J. Jáki, Szeged. 464. Dep. of Surgery, University Med. School.
