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

Prof. dr. Felix Boehnheim: Orvosok - ahogy Marx Károly látja őket

tuberkulózis bacilusának fölfedezése után gyakorlati profilaktikus következtetésekre jutott. Közleménye olyan eredményes volt, hogy az alsóház az ételek és italok hamisításának megakadályozására törvényt fogadott el: ,,it was suggested in 1881, that a company which would guarantee the purity of all articles they manufactured, would meet a want and prove a great success." 1893-ban Hassal érdekes önéletrajzot bocsátott közre. Szemléltetően írja le benne, hogyan fedte föl a kereskedők csalásait: „The exact mode of proceeding adopted in the case of each Report was as follows: selecting some suitable locality Mr. Miller and I used to sally out from time to time, usually in the evening, öfter on Saturday nights, in all weathers and at all seasons of the year; we were provided with a bag to receive the samples paper and ink. Sometimes we entered the shop together, but more often I told Mr. Miller what to buy and he made the actual purchase, while I was watching closely all that tock place, so that I might be, if needed, a competent witness. On leaving the shop, the name of the vendor, the date and cost of the purchase, together with our initials were at once inscribed in ink on the wrappers of the packages and it was the fixed rule, chat no econd purchase should ever be made until alls these formalities had been carried out

. . . But before any satisfactory examination of the samples could be made, it was necessary that the structure and microscopical characters of the vegetable substances themselves in their pure state, both as a whole and when ground and reduced to powder, should be studied and delineated; that they should be submitted if necessary to chemical analysis and that the probable adulterants of each article should be in succession subjected to similar scrutiny and analysis. Thus it was, that the foundation was laid, on which the determination of the question of the purity or otherwise of the articles to be reported upon, could be safely and surely based." Az eredményeket 1851 január és 1854 december hó között a „Lancet" publikálta. Italok, élelmiszerek, fűszeráruk, dohány kerültek vizsgálat alá. Vádját a Crosse & Blackwall, közismert cég képviselői megerősítették. Az orvosok harmadik csoportjában foglalkozott Marx azokkal, akik a politikai életben aktíve részt vettek. Elsőnek Kugelmannnal' (1830-1902). Az I. Internacionálé tagja volt. Marx október