Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
Collections of the Museum
services rendered. The coins representing important personalities (physicians, pharmacists, scholars) belong to the third group. The fourth group contains a rather mixed material : coins with representations of towns and counties and referring to major events in the life of the town concerned, e.g. congresses, universities, schools, etc. The fifth group is that of the Miscellanea, arranged according to subjects and special fields of medicine (surgery, dentistry, pharmaceutics, balneology, erotics, etc). Amuletts and talismans complete the material. Group six is made up by devotional coins, representing the patron saints of healing and holy places arranged in alphabetical order. Group seven contains plaques, group eight medals and orders (Red Cross, injury, etc.) The last group is made up by notes and emergency currencies. Each item of the numismatic collection is of medical or pharmaceutical interest or refers to public health in general. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS (ARCHIVES) 1. Written documents (manuscripts) 2. Printed documents 3. Pictures 4. Records 3 sound relics ARCHIVES Material collected from different archives, collected documents of legal persons (e.g. corporations, associations). 1. Documents of the Associations of Physicians including papers referring to memberhip, aids and bills, banking accounts of the assiciationsion, etc. 2. Material of the Itinerary Congresses of Hungarian Physicians and Natural ists arranged in a similar way as the above documents but taking into consideration special characteristics of the material. 3. Personal documents.
