Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 200-201. (Budapest, 2007)
TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - FORRAI, Judit: History of a Special Healing Method for Motor-disordered Children: Conductive Education - A mozgásszervi betegségben szenvedő gyermekek egyik sajátos gyógymódja, a konduktív nevelés története
The Institute was declared to be a college. But the hand-over between two ministries did not go smoothly. An agreement was written between Frigyes Doleschall, Minister of Health, and Pál Ilku, Minister of Culture and Education. The Ministry of Health still provided ambulances for transportation and laundry services and medical job descriptions and arranging the number of lessons could be done only with the assent of the Ministry of Health. Documentation and personnel data were handed over and the employees were transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Education. The Hungarian Workers ' and Peasants ' Government passed a separate resolution, that the Institute would disseminate conductive education over the whole country, it would establish a network of institutes in the countryside and would keep national records about motor disabled patients. The Institute had to provide treatment, education and upbringing for in-patients and outpatients. The conductors had to receive a teachers' degree. The education had to be free, and the treatment of inpatients had to be free for two years. 68 The ever-expanding Institute looked for a new building and a place was set apart for it on Kútvölgyi street, next to the Party Hospital. Pető still participated in the process of planning and design and in the early battles, but in 1967, after a six-hour long heated debate, he became unwell and died. How Pető was seen As many different Pető's live on in memory, as there are people who remember him. This is how Ilona Székely saw \\\m: 69 "He was a magnificent and excellent man. Only those got to know him who were able to understand his very complex personality. For Pető everybody was the same, he didn't differentiate between people whether they were/had a coruscating personality or talented or not. One had to love him very much in order to understand him. A lot of people didn't know this, and even more did not understand him, therefore they didn't like him, he even had many enemies, but still there were many admirers of him, those who had understood him. He helped a lot ofpeople, not only with his knowledge but he also financially supported those in need. A book had to be kept about how much money he should give to people. He didn 7 even know how much his salary was. He was paid from different places and then he just stuffed it into his pocket. He gave faith back to people in the most impossible and hopeless situations. Pető had a slight resemblance to Churchill - and not only because of the cigar! His knowledge of Hungarian, German and Austrian literature was remarkable, and he produced a flood of anecdotes and stories. His life was full of adventures. He read incessantly, in many languages. He wrote plays in German, under a German pseudonym. He also wrote short stories. These were piled up in one of the cupboards — no-one was allowed to read them. He lived alone, and his long-suffering housekeeper used begrudgingly to serve his guests according to his often capricious commands. Only a few of his followers ever manLaw Reports 30th December 1963. Volume 13. Number 15. 2031/30.12.1963. Interview with Ilona Székely, In: Forrai J.: O.e.93-97.
