Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 230-233. (Budapest, 2015)
ADATTÁR - Horváth Ferenc: Dr. Józsa Dániel (1795-1849)
170 Comm, de Hist. Artis Med. 230-233 (2015) Józsa Dániel síremléke a bályoki temetőben SUMMARY The present study summarizes the most important events of life and professional career of Daniel Józsa bom 220 years ago. Józsa, the head physician of former Crasna county was bom in Uzon of Székely region on 1, October, 1795. From the age of 10 he studied at the Bethlen College in Nagyenyed. In 1822 he attended the University of Medical Sciences in Vienna, where he got his doctor’s degree in 1828. He wrote his dissertation on the diseases of the female mamma. In the same year he settled with his first wife in Szilágysomlyó, Crasna county, where he was appointed to head physician of the county by the Transylvanian Gubernium. He gained great medical reputation being a lively, correct and energetic man with rational medical principles ahead of his time. He took part and held a presentation at the general meeting of the Hungarian physicians and nature researchers in Kolozsvár in 1844. As a result of it he was elected an associated member by both the Royal Hungarian Natural Science Society and the Royal Medical Association of Budapest. While he fruitfully fought against spreading of cholera during the epidemics in 1831, 1836 and 1848-49, he regularly took part in the public life of the county. From his first wife he had 6 children, from his second wife he had one child. He died in the village Bályok in Bihar county on 10, April, 1849. His tomb has been saved to the succeeding generations by the generosity of the local reformed parish and some Bályok origin doctors.
