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)

of Pavlov. A special connection between two countries is manifested then, when such opinions and results raise an echo among the physycians of the other country, which until now were not accepted on international level. We can point at such a form of Russian-Hungarian connections just in relation with the greatest Hungarian physician and his genial discovery. The international medical public opinion, especially the world of obstetricians showd no understanding for decades for the genial discovery ©t I. Semmelweis obstetrician-professor in Budapest concerning the common etiology of childbed-fever and pyaemia. And it belongs as a fact to the numerous famous characteristics of Leningrad - the former Petrograd - of today, that of whole Europe only the obstetricians of this town acknowledged during the lifetime of Semmelweis the importance of this discovery. Hugenberg an obstetrician in Petrograd sends Semmelweis a study of his, which was published in the St. Petersburger Medizinischer Zeitschrift with the following lines: „Our discussions about childbed-fever will show You - esteemed colleague - how many followers You have at the far North, and especially how very much youth is on Your part. And in consequence of this very much is gained, because the innovation future is theirs. „Semmelweis published continously Hugenbergs study in the Medical Weekly, but he adjoined also his own reflections to each article. This study served him as stimmulation for examining special literature in connection of the etiology of childbed-fever. The message of the obstetricians of Petrograd was the only encouraging ray for Semmelweis in the decennial night of misunderstanding. But sometimes also such opinions have a stimulating effect on searchers on the part of physicians of another country, with which they do not agree. We know such an example also of the Russian-Hungarian connections. Joseph Fodor the prominent Hungarian hygienic was the first to trace in vitro the bactericid capability of blood. It was Nuttal, who continued his experiments with a more perfect method with