Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 66-68. (Budapest, 1973)
TANULMÁNYOK - Regöly-Mérei Gyula: A középkori és régi magyar egyetemek, különös tekintettel a budapesti orvosi kar jelentőségére a tudománytörténetben (angol nyelven)
The Buda University (Universitas Budensis) however remained only for a short time in its new residence. The great distances in communication meant much trouble for patient and students alike and for this reason King Joseph II— at the proposal of the Hungarian Consilium Locumtenentiale —had the university removed to Pest in 1784. As a consequence its former name was cancelled and from this time on it bore the new name "Regia Scientiarum Universitas Hungáriáé", The two towns Pest and Buda were united in 1872 under the name of Budapest. The Medical Faculty received the three-storied building of the ancient Jesuit monastery standing in Pest at the corner of the former Hatvani and Újvilág streets (now Kossuth Lajos and Semmelweis str.). Both the theoretical institutes and the clinics found accomodation there. In spite of the narrow circumstances and often not satisfactory equipment—improved by our university only with difficulty—the scientific achievements were outstanding all the same. And even if the level of the great European universities could not be reached yet in the XVIII. century, in the middle of the XIX. we see the Medical Faculty come abreast of other significant universities in consequence of its scientific attitude and results. A specific Budapest medical school came into being (Semmelweis, Balassa, Hőgyes, Fodor, Bókay jun,, M. Lenhossék, F. Tangl, E. Jendrassik, S. Korányi, Schaffer etc.), the scientific results of which were already of importance even from international view-point. All this will be dealt with in detail below. Without any struggle there are generally no results. It is the historical merit of Lajos Markusovszky and his team, the so called "Progressive Wing" (Balassa, Semmelweis, Bókay sen., J. Jendrassik, F. Korányi, etc.) that in the second half of the last century modern medical education, scientific research work, medical treatment and public hygiene were carried into effect in Hungary. THE SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACULTY The general trend, called by Virchow "anatomical view" had already begun with Vesalius but very soon it became appearent that diseases involve abnormal morphological changes (Benivieni, Schenck von Grafenberg, further developed by Bonet's "Sepulchretum") but the decisive turn ensued when Morgagni proved that diseases have their "seats". With this discovery the morphological trend reached its independence and had its days of glory undoubtedly in the time of Rokitansky and Virchow, taking into consideration that the former thought also of chemical changes and the latter was one of the creators of pathohistological diagnosis. In Hungary the "anatomical view" gained ground very early which can be attributed to different moments. As early as in the XVII th century Károly Rayger had already made dissections on his deceased patients systematically in order to find out the organic changes caused by the pathological process as referred to by Morgagni in his standard work. Rayger described in the journal
