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TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - Pásztor Emil: A koponya anatómiája - Anatomy of the Scull

Pásztor Emil. : A koponya anatómiája 121 is to be identified even in the human embryo. Proportions of the 22 bones constituting the scull and of sizes of sutures are not only the result of the phylogeny, but those of the ontogeny as well. E.g. the age of the skeletons in archaeological findings could be identified according to these facts. Present paper outlines the ontogeny and development of the tissues of the scull, of the structure of the bone-tissue, of the changes of the size of the scull and of its parts during the different periods of human life, reflecting to the aesthetics of the scull as well. „Only the human scull can give me an impression of beauty. In spite of all genetical colseness, a scull of a chimpanzee cannot impress me aesthetically" - author confesses. In the second part of the treatise those authors are listed, who contributed to the perfection of our knowledge regarding the scull. First of all the great founder of modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, then Pierre Paul Broca, Jacob Benignus Winslow are mentioned here. The most important Hungarian contributors were as follow: Sámuel Rácz, Pál Bugát or the former assistant of Broca - Aurél Török. A wiđ eÿ used tool for measurement of the size of the scull, the craniometer was invented by the latter. The members of the family Lenhossék have had also important results in this field of research, while descriptive anatomy of the scull was completed by microsopical anatomy thanks the activity of Géza Mihálkov¡ts.