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)

Tauffer established Ín 1876 that ovariectomy is followed by premature menopausal He elaborated an operative method to close bladder-vagine fistulas and developed the plastics of perineum. He is the founder of capital operations in the field of gynecology in Hungary (1879). Joseph Jakob Plenck (1735-1807) was professor of obstetrics and surgery at our University from 1770 to 1783, In 1783 he moved to Vienna, where he, at first, became professor at the Josephinum, later chief-surgeon of the army. His works are internationally appreciated, but show his significance we should like, on this occasion, to emphasize the fact that he was among the first to systematize cutaneous diseases (Doctrina de morbis cutaneis, 1770) and classified tumours according completely new viewpoints (Novum systema tumorum .. ., 1767). The founder of Hungarian operative surgery János Balassa (1814-1868), a pupil of the Viennese professors Wattmann and Schuh, later deputy chief surgeon of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, was professor of surgery at the University of Pest (Budapest) from 1843. He was one of the first to establish that the operative treatment of tuberculant joints, used in his time, was harmful and the state of rest would lead to recovery. For this purpose he employed a dextrine bandage (Wien. med. Wschr. 1856, 1864). He introduced the laryngofission operation (1858). His methods in blepharoplasty and rhinoplasty are of great importance (Operationes plasticae, 1867). He elaborated a method to close bladder-vagine fistulas (1863). During the War of Independence he is Director of the Faculty of Medicine and the leader of medical affairs in the Hungarian ministry (1848—1849). Gyula Dollinger (1849-1937) Professor of Surgery was one of the outstanding representatives of modern orthopedy. His table for treating fracture of the femoral neck had been used also abroad for a long time. He described the conservative treatment of club-foot, also the operation of the chronic inflammation of the hip-joint. Tibor Verebély's (1875-1941) greatest merit is that he introduced the pathological way of thinking into surgery. The Billroth II gastric resection method modified by Jenő Pólya (1876-1945) is widely spread chiefly among Anglo-Saxon surgeons. As a historian of medicine he is also outstanding, his work in this field was published in 1941. He is an early realizator of decompressive trepanation. A surgical instrument for suturing partial gastrectomy designed Hümér Hühl (1868-1940) at the beginning of the century and modified by Aladár Petz (1888-1956), chief surgeon of Győr, is still in use. The founder of the up-to-date school of Hungarian internal medicine is Frigyes Korányi (1827-1913). His scientific activity is also prominent. In 1877 he had already established the fact that as a result of simple defervescence and heart treatment the mortality of typhoid fever could be decreased from 27 per cent to 9 per cent, later to 5-6 per cent. The opinion had namely, prevailed for a long time that fever was a useful and expedient symptom. Ziemssen and Liebermeister were the first to point out that fever is a manifestation of the