Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 51-53. (Budapest, 1969)
TANULMÁNYOK - Zsebők Zoltán: A radiológia fejlődése Magyarországon (angol nyelven)
THE EVOLUTION OF RADIOLOGY IN HUNGARY by ZOLTÁN ZSEBŐK T he beginnings of radiology in Hungary go back to the date when in 1895, around Christmas, Austrian and German newspapers reported the discovery of the "X" rays, which was soon followed by the text of the famous first lecture of Röntgen delivered at Würzburg. The news spread so quickly that even a local paper, the Tiszántúl of Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Rumania) related the discovery on 9th January, 1890. Already at the and of 1895 "private professor" (scientific degree corresponding to German Privatdozent — the Editor) Jenő Klupáthy produced some X-ray photographs on the Loránd Eötvös directed department of physics. The evidence is —among others—a telegram sent from London to New York on January 1L, 1890, which appeared in the "Electrical Engineer" of New York saying "Klupáthy confirmed Röntgen's experimental results." Klupáthy gave detailed information about the X-rays and his findings in connection with the first X-ray photographs taken in Hungary in the Mathematical and Physical Society in 10th and 30th January. The ensuing events are too condensed to reconstruct their sequence now. But it is not doubtful that Endre Hőgyes, too, who was enthusiastic about any new development, was among the first who used the X-rays for practical purposes, even if only out of interest for the new. On 18th January, 1890, Hőgyes delivered a lecture in the Royal Medical Association entitled "Photographing of skeletons through the body, according to Röntgen", pertly on the basis of the mentioned pictures. He an published account on the new discovery in the January issue of the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly) illustrated with an X-ray photograph. There is a communication on the subject in the 1890, January, issue of the journal of the Society for the Natural Sciences written by Vince Wartha, professor in chemistry at the Technical University, whose interest in the important discovery must have been raised by his physician-wife, Vilma Hugonnai. It is also beyond question that by that time Dezső Pékár, Eötvös's assistant had already produced some stereoradiographs, but that was not published as a scientific finding because stereophotography had earlier been widely used by Eötvös for other purposes. At the beginning of 1890, on the occasion of the congress of the German physicists in Frankfurt a.M. two Hungarian physicists called on Röntgen in Würzburg and visited his institute. One of them was Károly Kiss, a school -
