Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 19. (Budapest, 1960)

prof. dr. Kováts Ferenc: Jean Fernel hatása a gümőkór magyarországi irodalmára

not even translated. Frankovith's work too is exceedingly muddled. It has been doubted whether he was a physycian at all, still this is confirmed by contemporary records from Sopron. These three books, apart from their oldness, have no worth from the scientifkal and national standpoint. This is not yet medicine, only popular doctoring put into books. A surgical work by János Balsaráti Vitus has been lost. The first Hungarian medical book existing only in manuscript, the author of which is unknown, has been published by Béla Varjas in 1942 and is very valuable indeed. Said manuscript is kept in the „Teleki Téka" in Marosvásárhely; the voluminous work comprises all medicine. The title page, the introduction and the author's name are lost. Varjas supposes the book having been written by György Lentsés who lived at the court of Báthory, in 1570. However, Rezső Alföldi discovered in the „Teleki Téka" a copy of the original codex from 1754; the copy was made, on the request of Count Zsigmond Rhédei by „his beloved spouse Kata Wesselényi". According to the copy the title of the book is: „ARS MEDICA or a book in which you find many useful and often tried-out medicines against such various ailments as befall the human body. Which was compiled for the first time from observations made by scholarly men by György Lentsés in Warad, on May 26, in the year 1610." Rezső Alföldi stated also that György Lentsés made ,,notes" from the writings of „learned men" and put these into the final text. Some of these scraps of paper were pasted afterwards into the manuscript into the appropriate passages. He surely toiled for decades and completed his work in 1610. This was a generally adopted procedure at that time. The foreword of Wekker's great work bears the date 1576, but the manuscript was finished only in 1610. György Lentsés was an industrious, intelligent man with developed critical faculties; he also dabbled in medicine. Accord-