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)

longitudinal walls are interdependant while the two partition walls form one unit with each other beside. The classical restrictions of the two mythologicai compositions (Hygieia and Asclepios) gave no possibility for the adequate reflection of the artist's independant intellectual world, but the more so the other, iconographically more free subjects. The artist threw off the formal academic pattern and gracefully represented the professional activity

: the allegorical figures authentically reflect the bourgeois charm of the Biedermeyer times. The 600 wooden, glass, faience and porcelain vessels of the pharmacy come from different regions of the country, and range over the age between the early 19th century and the first third of the twenties. It is worth giving prominence to the Empire wooden pedestalled jars of Gönc and the Biedermeyer ones of Békéscsaba (Fig.

81.), the faience vessels of Miskolc, the AltWien porcelain vessels of the Brothers of Mercy Pharmacy and those of the Zsolnaÿ works at Pécs. From the glass vessels the opaline glasses of "The Snake" Pharmacy of Pest and the polished jars of the Brothers of Mercy decorated with pomagranate for containing powders and liquids are to be mentioned. Some beautiful mortars on the tare table, balances and other equipments complete the pharmacy interior unique in its kind.