Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 73-74. (Budapest, 1975)
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Society; Dr. F. Antoni, Rector of the Semmelweis Medical University. Budapest; Dr. I, Zoltán, the President of the Federation of Hungarian Medical Societies; by Professor Dr. B. D. Petrov (Moscow) and by Professor Dr. O. H. Wangensteen (Minneapolis). The presidential platform furthermore included Dr. L. Dulieu (Montpellier), the Secretary-General of the International Society; Dr. J. Antall, the Secretary-General of the Congress and of the Hungarian Society; Dr. Fortier de la Broquerie, the Vice-president of the International Society, President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and future Chairman of the next (XXV th ) International Congress (Québec. Montréal, 1976); the two Vice-Presidents of the International Society: Dr. F. A Sondervorst (Louvain) and Dr. S. Szpilczynski (Wroclaw); and Dr. G. Ádám, Rector of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. Apart from the opening session, the participants were given opportunities to register, meet other guests and take part in social occasions during the first two days. All delegates received full documentation (Programme, Abstracts and List of Participants), a commemorative bronze medal, a festive volume published by the Semmelweis Museum, entitled "Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts" and a special number of the German periodical "DieWaage" published to commemorate the event. Many people, including a substantial number of males, attended the excursion to the picturesque Margaret Island organised in the "ladies'-programme", and a sightseeing tour around the Hungarian capital. The second day was closed by a reception in the Grand Hotel on the Margaret Island in the evening, given by Dr. Schultheisz. 2. Scientific Programme The scientific programme passed off according to a tight programme from the 27 th to the 29 th August. In the central house of the Congress there were simultaneous morning and afternoon sessions in four lecture-rooms, i. e. 24 sessions altogether. Each session lasted for 3% hours, and time was allocated for up to 13 lectures, according to the programme. Out of the 312 lectures, announced in advance, only 223 were actually read. There were 59 lectures in Section A ("Evolution of the approaches to medicine from the 18 th century to the early 20 th century"), 41 in Section B ("Medico-historical relations between the countries of East and Central Europe and other countries"), 19 in Section C ("Interactions between medicine and other disciplines and arts"), and 104 in Section D ("Varia"). Within the last group, separate sessions were devoted to Ethnomedicine (11 lectures), History of Psychiatry (9) and History of Pharmacy (10). Perhaps it will also be of some interest that the break-down according to languages was as follows: 66 in English, 50 in French, 94 in German, 9 in Russian, 3 in Spanish and 1 in Italian. Slides were used on 36 occasions and a separate show of films was also organized. Three out of the four films presented dealt with several periods of Hungarian medical history and one with life of Armauer Hansen, the discoverer of Bacillus leprae,
