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MEDICAL HISTORY IN HUNGARY - E. Schultheisz L. Tardy: Summing-up of the Past and Present of Hungary's Medicohistorical Research Work (in English)

already in its essence, medicohistorical research. This idea had been brought to Vienna by Van Swieten and handed over by him to the professors of the faculty of Nagyszombat, and so to Weszprémi, too. As known, he himself not only included development of medical science into his lectures, but participated also in the publication of the famous DioskoridesCodex

. Due to his initiative, several classics of the antique world have again been published in Vienna, serving several professors of Nagyszombat, Buda, and Pest, so also Trnka, Stockinger and Schoepf-Merei, as sources. Paul Ádámi (1739—1814) of Trencsén, going later to Vienna and then becoming professor of Cracow, had written a work of independent medicohistorical character. His book of epidemiological history, the Bibliotheca loimica, is a work of references. Linzbauer in writing his codex to be mentioned later, utilized it as a source

. II. Also in Hungary, it was in the 19th century that medicohistory became a university subject. Micheal Lenhossék director of the board of that time, in his project serving the improvement of the level of study, submitted to the Hungarian Parliament on February 28th, 1828, had pointed out the subjects the systematical lecturing of which he has considered so-to-say as indispensibly necessary. Of these, one was medicohistory, the literature of which (história pragmatica medicinae cum literatura medica) he has proposed to lecture as an independent, separate subject. It is of interest that Lenhossék mentions the subject as " extra-or dinar iųm Studium utilissimum" which could be lectured by one of the professors as "erga peculiar em remunerationem" [4]. Ágoston Schoepf Merei, in 1835 has applied for permission to deliver lectures of the domain of medicohistory. The king, already at the end of the same year effectuated Schoepf's application and the faculty accepted his appointment as associated professor on "

história pragmatica medicinae et chirurgiae

" [5] at the session held in March 12th 1836. Schoepf has lectured on medicohistory until 1843. It was then that he started to lecture on paediatrics and applied for the acquittal of lectures on medicohistory which he has been given, Schoepf has not made any investigations of his own in the field of medicohistory, has however summed-up and systematized medical trends of his time and that preceding it directly, in his work entitled "Orvosi rendszerek, gyógymódok, s néme ly rokon tárgyakról" (Of medical systems, therapeutic methods and some related subjects). Thomas Stockinger, one of his pupils has taken over his inheritance in 1845. After an interval of two years, in 1845, on the initiative and recommendation of the protomedicus (country-chief-physician) Stählÿ, the Council of Governorship assented that Thomas Stockinger in the quality of associated professor should deliver medicohistorical lectures [6]. Stockinger, professor of theoretical and practical surgery has held then lectures on "rational historical science of medical surgery" until 1847. In his inaugural lecture, delivered on October 27th, 1845, he has dealt with the history of surgical instruments. After Stockinger, the department of medicohistory has stopped at the Uni15