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

MEDICAL HISTORY IN HUNGARY - J. Antall: Museum Affairs Concerning Medical and Pharmaceutical History in Hungary (in English)

Fig. 7. homeopathy, objects from the Reform Age, and the War of Independence (1848—1849) in Hungary appear together with contemporary instruments. The portrait of Semmelweis (1857) is by Canzi. (Fig. 8.) The medical school of Pest reached to the level of the age, following the Viennese school. The plaquettes, keepsakes and the famous laryngoscopes of Czermák (Fig. 9.) are the signs of lively scientific activity of inquisitive passion. Both the discoveries Fig. 8* in bacteriology and the development following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (18G7) made their effects on Hungarian medical science. Passing by the microscope of Károly Thán, and the experimental instruments of Högÿes one finds himself in the two closing rooms of the exhibition, the Gömöry apothecary of 1813 (Fig. 10.) and the Semmelweis memorial room (Fig. 11). 38