J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary. Presented to the XXII. International Congress for the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 4. (Budapest, 1970)

Lecturis Salutem

LECTURISSALUTEM This modest publication is presented to the XXII. International Congress for the History of Medicine by the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine and the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library. In Hungary organization and scope for medical history is provided by the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine and by the Pharmaceutical Historical Section of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society

, in close cooperation with the former, while the basic institute is the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library

. From 1970 its periodical, Communicationes de História Artis Medicinae will be published jointly with the Society. The present publication does not aim to give a comprehensive picture of medical historical research in Hungary. The less so, as its publication was decided by the leadership of the Society only in February 1970, and it had to go in print on April 1st. Therefore our readers are asked to condone its deficiencies and regard it as a symbol of our belief in the importance of international scientific cooperation

• We request the same from our hosts, our medical historian colleagues from Roumania. We cherish the hope that in future the examination of our common past will form rather a bridge than a barrier between us, and this volume will facilitate our future cooperation as a document of good neighbourhood. 9