Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 15-16. (Budapest, 1959)

Géza Hahn, M. D.: Methodology of studying the connections beetwen nations in the research of medical history. (With special regards to the Russian-Hungarian connections)

METHODOLOGY OF STUDYING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NATIONS IN THE RESEARCH OF MED IC AL HISTORY (WITH SPECIAL REGARDS TO THE RUSSIAN-HUNGARIAN CONNECTIONS) By GÉZA HAHN M. D. (Budapest) The results of medical science bore fruit in the course of the •* development of this science more and more, due to the mutual influence of scholars in the different countries. In the ancient Europe medical science meant the Greek medical science, in the XVI-XVII. centuries anatomy meant the Work of Italian-, physiology that of English scholars. But during the last two centuries scholars of the most different countries cooperate and produce an effect on eachothcr in developing of medical science. To the dynamical cause-disclosing research of the development of medical science it is therefore necessary, that the between nations existing medical connections should also be disclosed. The different appearences of these connections are well to be characterized in the Russian-Hungarian relation. The best documented and most examined connection is the settling of the physicians of one country in the other. In the XVIII. th century the finding of employment of Hungarian physicians in Hungary encountered difficulties. The inhabitants were poor, the feudal landowners were not willing to employ official physicians, the aristocrates employed foreign physicians. At this time many Hungarian doctors established themselves in Russia: Keresztúri, Orlai and others. Also in the XIX-th century Paul