Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
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102 and Public Health in Modem Hungary " was published in 1953. The second volume could not be published on account of the early death of the author; it is preserved in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Several authors have discussed some special chapters of medical history in shorter or longer works. Here can be listed the work of Imre Bartók, Károly Bede, János Bókaÿ, András Dadaÿ, György Elekes, Lajos Fekete, Sándor Fritz, Árpád Herczeg, István Irsay, Gyula Jáki, Dániel Kellner, György Korbuly, Béla Molnár, Lajos Ne'kám, Gyula Regöly-Mérei, István Vámossy and Béla Varjas. The most important foreign publications referring to the history of medicine can also be found in our library. We obtain them either by purchase or by presentation. W Te can acquire recent publications in exchange for our periodical Communicationes de história artis medicinae. We are granted review copies for the reviews of books published in the above mentioned periodical. In this way we receive each work edited by the Wellcome Institute in London. From among recent works related to medical history and published abroad, mention should be made of the works of Ackerknecht , Curtius, Diepgen, Herrlinger, Erna Lesky, F. N. L. Poynter, Schoųten, Schumacher, Siegrist, Singer etc. PERIODICALS There are more than 20 000 volumes of periodicals in the Library. Unlike the book holdings, the limit of collection is 1945. The material of the periodicals is twofold: partly medical literature, partly medical historical literature. The material after 1945 consists of mainly the latter type, except the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly). The earliest periodicals of the library date back to the second half of the 18th century and derive mainly from German territories. The most important ones are: Acta Helvetia Physico-Mathematico-Anatomico-Botanico-Medico (Basle 1 751-1772), Giornale di Medicina (Venice, 1764-1765), der Arzt (Vienna-Leipzig, 1778), Giornale per Servire alia Storia Regionata della Medicina de Questo (Venice 1783-1799), Ephemerides Meteorologica Medicina (Vienna 1 794)5 Journal der Pharmacie für Arzte, Apotheker und Chemisten (Leipzig 1795-1806), Archiv für Physiologie (Halle, 1796-1829), Journal für die Chirurgie, Geburtshülfe und Gerichliche Arzneykunde (Jena, 1797-1804). Three periodicals are especially noteworthy for their wide ranging effect in Hungary: Medizinisch Chirurgische Zeitung (Salzburg-Innsbruck 1790-1849), Ĥųfelañd's two periodical editions entitled Journal der Practischen Arzneykunde und Wųñđar zneykunst (Jena, 1795-1844) and Bibliothek der Practischen Heilkunde (1790-1843). In the course of the 19th century the number of medical periodicals greatly increased and by the second half of the century - due to the process of special-
