Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 12. (Budapest, 1959)

Dr. DADAY ANDRÁS: Adatok a magyarországi kretinizmus történetéhez

speech. This may have been responsible for the passing of a bill, which, in 1868, excluded cretins exposed to jeering from schools maintained by a public authority in 1871, laid a ban on the admission of cretins to lunatic asylums, and in 1876 ordered the communes to assume responsibility for the keeping, care, and treatment of destitute cretins. Even the society founded in 1870 for the protection and education of these unfortunate people may be ascribed to the influence of Gerley. Interest in the fate of cretins was again revived in 1886, when German specialists convoked a meeting to Graz to decide about the methods of treatment to be adopted with idiots. A study of the cretins in the Csallóköz was also put on the agenda. The experience of many years collected by Jenő Lendvay, chief physician in Pozsony was printed and sent to the German specialists by the state. Unfortunately, the meeting was held in Frankfurt and thus the trip to examine the Csallóköz was put off. During the last quarter of the past century, university professor Ferenc Xaver Linzbauer resumed the studies on cretinism with the assistance of the state. His survey covered the whole territory of the Austro

—Hungarian monarchy. Only selections of the enormous work have been published. Cretinism in to-day's Hungary lost much of its importance, since the bulk of the danger zones had been transferred to the succession states.