Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
The Medical Historical Library
more, it preserves the material of the libraries of different Pharmacist Associations that ceased to exist. It consists of a rich material referring to pharmacy : a complete series of Pharmaceutical periodicals published in Hungary and collected by the Parmacist Associations and an almost complete periodical collection of foreign papers. I . Collection of Books The major part of the material is made up by German books published in Germany or Austria mainly from the field of chemistry, c. f. the works of Liebig, Ehrmann, Trommsdorf, Dumas, Duflos etc. The number of encyclopaedias is considerable, c. f. Moeller, Mayer, Thorns, Kazay, Vondrasek etc.) There is a complete collection of works used as text-books in pharmacist trainig in Hungary, e. g. Felletár-Kdtai, Csurgay, Gÿðrÿ, S chilber szky-Ströcker, AugusztinKőszeghy-Nagy, Dávid etc. and books describing Hungarian-made drugs: Karlovszky-Winkler, Ku lik, Bontka-Kéler, Putuvky, Csipke, Nemedÿ, Pañdu a etc. A special collection consists of the various pharmacopoeias which are especially significant from the viewpoint of pharmacology. We possess a complete series of Austrian provincial and military pharmacopoeias preceding the publishing of the first Hungarian work of similar character (1871) and beside them there are officially published German, Swiss, English, Italian, French, American, Russian, Rumanian, Croatian, Czech and Japanese pharmacopoeias. The library has a significant collection of official fees (taxes), which serve as an important sources. The Pharmaceutical Pocket Calanders published since 1870 contain important data and evidence for those who are interested in the development of pharmaceutical institutions in Hungary. Two thirds of the dissertations of pharmacists (cca 650) who took their degree since i860 can be found in the library, too. Besides, the library collected and still collects the treatises of professors of pharmacology and other outstanding scientists of the kindred branches of science. II. Collections of Periodicals A considerable part of the collection is made up by pharmaceutical periodicals from 1848 up to the present. Beside the Gyógyszerészi Hirlap (Pharmaceutical Journal) edited by Ferenc Láng A. in Nyitra in 1848 there is the complete series of Gyógyszerészi Hetilap (Pharmaceutical Weekly) edited by Schédy in 1862 and published until 1944, and the Gyógyszerészi Közlöny (Pharmaceutical Review) edited by Géza Karlovszky in 1885. Mention should be made of
