Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 71-72. (Budapest, 1974)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Huszár Lajos: Gyógyszerészi vonatkozású érmek a Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeumban

112. Moszkva, III. Országos Gyógyszerész Kongresszus. Fehér szegélyen körirat, kék mezőben felirat. Díszes karéjokkal övezve, fent ráerősített kígyós csésze. 1899, Zománcozott fém, 40 mm. 113. Paris, Az alkalmazott kémia IV, nemzetközi kongresszusa. Fehér szegélyen körirat,,. CHIMIE APPLIQUÉE . .. Középen aranyozott körmezőben koronázott, színezett címer. 1900. Zománcozott fém, 28 mm. 114. Wien, Nemzetközi gyógyszerész-találkozó. E) Hegyére állított négyszögű lap felső sarkában piros—fehér—piros sávok, középen V. KONGRESS DER / INTERNATIONAL-UNION IN / WIEN 1934 / INTERNAT-TREFFEN DER / APOTHEKER. Lent kígyós csésze. 1934. Fehéres fém, 31—31 mm. J. Hollarek cég jelzése. Summary The Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum of Budapest, while gathering all the relics of the past of medicine, pays a special attention to the development of its collection of medical medals. This is based on the collection of the late Géza Faludi, a paediatrician and head physician of the István Hospital in Budapest, which was long known and appreciated by specialist circles. By now it has augmented to about 6 000 pieces and it includes interesting and rich sets of various types of medals related to medicine or health in general. The collection is a general one, but its primary aim is to be as complete as possible in Hungarian medals and those related to Hungary. In addition to it, however, the development of the other groups of the collection is also desirable, so that they could contribute to the researches in the history of medicine with appropriate documentation in objects, too. As to the subjects of the collection it contains all medals, tokens, coins and badges that have any relation to curing, health, hygiene, etc. Consequently it includes medals relating to pharmacy, too. Here we intend to describe these pharmaceutical medals, selected from the mass of the collection and presented as a kind of "corpus separatum", thus providing a comprehensive series of medals. We shall consider the medals in separate groups, although in some cases it is difficult to decide for a medal which category it belongs to. The first group includes the personal medals, in the alphabetic order of the persons represented. Here we find pharmacists, persons connected with the history of pharmacieutics (their number can be enlarged or reduced according to individual judgement), and finally manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, dealers in medicines and herbs, etc. The second group contains medals relating to institutions and events, e.g. schools, congresses, exhibitions, botanical gardens, etc. Here the order follows the alphabetical list of the towns where the event took place or where the institution was situated. With several medals belonging to one town the chronological order is followed. The third group can be formed from the tokens advertising various pharmacies and medicaments. Here the selection had to be flexible and tokens have been included which propagated medicaments prepared by non-qualified pharmacists. The advertising medals of medicinal waters have also been classified here. These larger groups of medals are supplemented by smaller sets containing me-