Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
The Medical Historical Library
ioo içth century: Ignác Semmelweis, Die Aetiologia (1861) his basic work where he published his discovery), Offener Brief (1862); Ignác Sauer, Therapia speciális (1844-1845) (manuscript), Ágost Schoepf Merei, A gyermekgyógyászat tankönyve (Text-book of paediatrics( (1847), Népszerű intések (Popular warnings) (1836), János Balassa, Gyakorlati sebészet (Practical surgery) (1844). Sándor Lumniczer, Orvosi sebészi értekezés a képlő sebészetről (Medicosurgical treatise on plastic surgery) (1844), Pál Almási Balogh, De evolutione et vita encephali (1823), József Fodor, Egészségtan (Hygiene) (1886), Endre Högÿes¡ Jelentés a veszettségre vonatkozó vizsgálataink jelenlegi állásáról (Report on the present state of our exeminations concerning rabies) (1886), Frigyes Korányi, A belgyógyászat kézikönyve (Handbook of internal medicine ) (1894-1900) Mihály Lenhossék, Útmutatás az anatómiai gyakorlathoz { Guide to practical anatomy) (1900) Ignác Hirschler, Adatok a láthártyamaradvánÿ kórodai ismeretéhez (Contributions to the diagnostics of the retina) (1875), Zsigmond Purjesz, A XVI. századbeli jelesebb syphilographok (Noted syphilographs of the 16th century) (1882), Lajos Thanhoofer, A szövetek és szervek szerkezete és azok vizsgáló módszerei (Structure and analysis of tissues and organs) (1894), Lajos Markusovszky, Selected Works (1905). Beside the above mentioned works - partly some of them included - special collections emerged within the holdings of the library. Especially noteworthy collections exist in the field of botanies, pharmaceutics, balneology, chirurgy, venerous diseases, popular curing, magic and occultism etc. MEDICAL DISSERTATIONS AND OFFPRINTS The 5000 volumes of medical dissertations contain not only the older inaugural dissertations in Hungary, but also similar material from abroad : dissertations from the German and French universities up to thefforties of the 20th century. We preserve dissertations from the various stages of medical training in Hungary, those of the Nagyszombat, Buda and Pest Universities. We collected the dissertations of Hungarian students who graduated at foreign universities. The earliest one of this collection is Sámuel Spielenĥ erg's thesis entitled Theses de morbo hungarico" published in Basle in 1597. István Király obtained his doctor's degree in Halle in 1697, his dissertation entitled De genuino et simplicissimo dolor is podagrici remedio .. . can also be found in our library. The collection of offprints contains more than 15 000 units: partly Hungarian and partly foreign articles related to medicine and medical history. The collections of books, dissertations, offprints and periodicals have specimens in several languages beside Hungarian : German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Polish works can be found in abundance beside works written in Latin and Greek.
