Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)

Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts (Guide for the Exhibition)

1858), chief medical officer of the country urged the introduction of compulsory small-pox vaccination. We are proud that Hungarian physicians were among the first to recognize the significance of vaccination and endeavoured to introduce it immediately. The show-case presents Sámuel Váradi's work entitled "A tehénhimlő avagy a vaktzina" ('Cowpox or vaccine') and several plaques representing the outstanding personalities of medicine of the age, together with a certificate of small-pox vaccination dating from 1847. Furthermore there are vaccination instruments and Jenner's work in German translation to be seen ("Beobachtung über die Koĥp¤eken" 'Observations on Cowpox', published in Hannover in 1800) and the above mentioned work of Ferenc Bene entitled "Elementa politiae medicae".