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)

his textbook as one of the best of piece of works concerning pediatry. Bókay was in personal connection with Nil Filatov and the international medical science denominated at Bókay's suggestion „Filatow-Dukes"-illness the fourth illness, which was only connected with Dukes's name until then. Bókay studied very thouroughly the works of the Russian pediatrists in connection with the streptococcus-serum against scarlet-fever. Although it does not belong to personal connections, but in consequence of its concrete character the receipt and translation of scientific books on the part of the medical science of the other country, stands near to these. The in 1833 edited Schoolbook - the title of which: „Elementa medicináé practicae" is - written by Francis Bene professor in Budapest of the theoretical medical science, was used at many Universities of Russia. Into Hungarian were translated and edited the following works of Nil Filatov: „Lectures on childhood intestinal catarrh" (1894) and „Diagnosis and symptom-doctrine of children's disease". To the latter the author himself wrote a preface. Joseph Fodor the great Hungarian hygienic let to be translated the hygiene Erisman for the purpose of teaching hygienics in middle-schools. If we try to study the connections between the medical science of certain countries in respect of their effect, which they had on the development of medical science, we would leave aside just the most substantial ones, if we would restrict our researches only to the direct personal connections, or to the translation of books. In many cases the echo, which the theories propounded by the physicians of the respective country and the results of their researches had a very stimulating effect on the medical science of certain countries, by the physicians of another country. Naturally one cannot consider as special connection of the medical science of two countries the taking over of such methods and doctrines, which - after gaining general acknowledgement - became part of the treasurehouse of general medical science. The Hungarian medical science accepted the operative proceedings of Pirogov, but only then, when these became accepted methods on international level. The same holds as well for the doctrines