Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 57-59. (Budapest, 1971)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK — ELŐADÁSOK - Bokesová- Uherová, Mária: A nagyszombati egyetem orvostudományi karának keletkezése és szervezete (angol nyelven)

keep of the garden was successful thanks to the devoted and purposeful work of professor Jacob Winterl. During the duration of the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty nearly one thousand species of plants were grown among which there was a great number of medicinal plants. The professor of botany considered it as an unconditional necessity for the students of medicine and pharmacy to get acquainted with these. Many species of medical plants were obtained from near and distant parts of North Hungary, giving the collectors possibilities of a rich assortment. The teaching of chemistry also met with difficulties. At the beginning it was a question of space and when the faculty got its own building where the department of chemistry had its own laboratory there arose other difficulties. The chemical laboratory needed not only space but also laboratory equipment, different apparatus and technical aids. The regular supply of chemicals for laboratory experience was no less important. It was a real stumbling-block. The supply of chemicals was dependent on the approval of central offices in Vienna and carried out through the intermediary of the Hungarian governmental council. Because it was long lasting and time consuming it was slowing down the teaching process. Many chemicals, which seemed to be too expensive to the officials, were not supplied to the faculty, as a result of which teaching was very much impaired. Because the supply of medicals was not possible through any other channel, teaching had to be adjusted to the given conditions and the needs adapted to the possibilities. The professors of the faculty of medicine, especially those who were most affected by the inadequacies and difficulties of the faculty sent in complaints to the central offices to set the right course for teaching. Jacob Winterl, professor of botany and chemistry, was the one who was the most active in defending the rights of the medical faculty. Already at the end of 1773, when he had gained a certain experience in the botanical garden and chemical laboratory, he asked for a larger sum of money for their improvement. A commission of experts from Vienna came to Tyrnavia to verify the complaints on the spot and suggested the necessary measures to be taken to rectify these inadequacies. The ground on which the botanical garden stood was declared to be unsuitable for the purpose. Then the medical faculty managed to get a more suitable site which was run by it until its transfer to Buda. To improve the existing conditions in the remaining sections the faculty of medicine had little hope. Its successful development was also affected by the fact that the successor of van Swieten, protomedicus von Störck was not favourably inclined to the fulfilment of the requirements of the faculty. His answers unfailingly expressed his unwillingness to contribute to the right solution wich would have been an outlet from the difficulty. His proposals to rectify inadequacies could neither be identified with the views which he asserted in the new study programme in the year 1775. The best solution, according to him, was, for the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty, to stick to possibilities which were realizable. According to him, clinical practice was to be replaced by ex-cathedra explanations. Experiments in chemistry, for the time being, were considered