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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)

The extensive work of two volumes "The history of Hungarian pharmacology" (Budapest, 1930) by János Baradlay and Elemér Bársony is from a scientific point of view of less importance. V. In view of the given possibilities of the present study, Hungarian periodicals having published and still publishing medicohistorical studies have to mentioned only in a concised form. There existed no independent periodical of medical history in the last century. Most of the communications were published in the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly). New data, papers elaborating reference material were mostly published in the "Századok" (Centuries), edited by the Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Hungarian Historical Society). The Orvosi Hetilap is up to our days publishing papers on medical history in a supplement, the Horus, appearing every fortnight, since 1959, edited by Sándor Székely. The Horus takes an important position in the distribution of medicohistorical data. But also other periodicals, such as Orvosképzés (Postgraduate Journal), Gyógyászat (Therapy), and recently some specialized ones [Katonaorvosi Szemle (Review of Field Medicine); Nőorvosok Lapja (Journal of Gynaecologists); Fogorvosi Szemle (Review of Stomatology)

; Orvosi Könyvtáros (Medical Librarian), etc.] are publishing papers of medical history. The periodical Communicationes ex Bibliotheca Históriáé Medicae Hungarica had first been published in 1955. This independently medicohistorical periodical has in the meantime been changed as to title and appearance. At present, it appears with the title "Orvostörténeti Közlemények—Communicationes de História Artis Medicinae", as the periodical of the Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum és Könyvtár (Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library), the Magyar Orvostörténelmi Társaság (Hungarian Society of Medical History) founded in 1958. It is edited by József Antall, author of several original studies of medical history, whose work in the first place is centered around Hungarian medical history of the 19th century and the development of hygiene-politics of the epoch of liberalism and the medical school of Pest (Balassa, Markusovszky, Semmelweis, etc.). It is impossible to specify all collaborators of the mentioned periodicals, or the whole of published material on medical history; as to the latter, we refer to the work by Sándor Dornÿeÿ "Bibliography of Hungarian Medical History" (1945-1960). (Budapest, 1961). Some authors, have nevertheless to be mentioned. The studies of principal importance by Károly Farkas have been published in Communicationes de História Artis Medicinae, i.e. its predecessor. His work "From the MohácsDisaster up to Sabin's vaccine" can be read in the third supplement of the periodical. Gyula Regöly-Mérei [14], dealing with the disclosure of the past of Hungarian medical history, is the author of excellent paleopathological works [15] and the 21