J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary 1972. Presented to the XXIII. International Congress of the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 6. (Budapest, 1972)

LECTURIS SALUTEM This modest publication is presented to the XXIII International Congress of the History of Medicine by the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine and the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library. In Hungary organization and scope for

t medical history is provided by the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine and by the Pharmaceutical Historical Section of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society, in close cooperation with the former, while the basic institute is the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library. From i97o its periodical, Communications de História Artis Medicinae will be published jointly with the Society

. This volume offers some results of the researches done in Hungary in the main themes of the Congress. In addition special consideration was given to papers dealing with British-Hungarian relation in the field of medicine and health. At the same time the present volume represents the first steps of the preparations for the XXIVth International Congress of the History of Medicine to be held in 1974 in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.