Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 218-221. (Budapest, 2012)
KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Monos Emil—László Molnár—Lajos Szollár—Osmo Hänninen: Rácz Sámuel, az első magyar nyelven írott élettan-tankönyv írója
MONOS E. - MOLNÁR L. - SZOLLÁR L. - HÁNN1NEN, O.: Sámuel Rácz 91 title doctor honoris causa of medicine at the University of Kuopio, Finland.) A small copy of the Rácz-medal was given to all participants of the 50th anniversary congress. The Samuel Rácz Memorial Medal is usually given by the General Assembly of the Hungarian Physiological Society for special merits in the field of physiological sciences. Three of the authors of the present article (EM, LSz and OH) have also received the medal. Tigerstedt and the first physiology textbook in Finnish Rácz’s Hungarian physiology textbook was published some 120 years before the first physiology textbook was published in Finnish (TIGERSTEDT 1903). (Fig. 4.) Robert Tigerstedt (1853-1923) studied at the University of Helsinki. He made a career as professor of physiology in the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a specialist of endocrinology and cardiovascular physiology. He discovered kidney as a source of hypertension i.e. he discovered renin. This hypertension is still one of the foci of medical research and Robert Tigerstedt Prizes are given to successful workers. His books in German were widely used in Europe. Tigerstedt played an important role in the promotion of physiology and medical research and also clinical medicine both in Finland and in Sweden. Tigerstedt was one of the founders of the International Congresses of Physiology which started in 1889. He was selected as Honorary President of the International Congress of Physiology held in 1916. This congress never took place due to World War I. It took nearly one hundred years until the Centennial Congress of Physiological Sciences was finally organized in Helsinki in 1989. FYSIOLOGIA. ROBERT TIGERSTEDT. UOXSX« X. SUOM A CAT N K N. SttTOKO i»Oj. «. «MMSSttä»'« KliJATAlSO. Fig. 4. The cover page of the first Finnish textbook on physiology (Fysiologia) written by Robert Tigerstedt, published in 1903 and translated by K. Suomalainen
