Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 51-53. (Budapest, 1969)

TANULMÁNYOK - Zsebők Zoltán: A radiológia fejlődése Magyarországon (angol nyelven)

blished at the two blocks of clinics, directed by Béla Kelen and Gyula Elischer. In 1921 the latter accepted the chair in radiology at the newly-established Debrecen University and took many of his fellow-researchers with him. He was first of all a clinicist. He obtained European fame as a result of his examinations of the mucous membrane of the stomach by zirconic oxide and by his X-ray photograph of a hothouse convallaria (B. Alexander, B.O.T.E. Radiológiai Klinika) photographs of the heart in certain phases of its revolution using a switch apparatus invented by himself. He was not only an expert clinicist but a musician as well, who liked beauty and played the cello in the orchestra of Debrecen in his free time. Among his students Nándor Ratkóczy, Dezső Marko, József Kopári, Jenő Engelmayer, Antal Rencz, Zoltán Hrabovszky, József Halmi and László Csonth achieved the best reputation. Elischer, too, fell victim to radiation in 1929. With his death the Debrecen institute was much weakened, the university department was abolished, those few left continued to work under Rencz. In Budapest Elischefs friend, Béla Kelen lead the field. Since 1909 he directed the X-ray department of the First Gynaecological Clinic and was one of the pioneers of the X-ray treatment of uterine cancer—mainly opposed by Scipiades. i6o