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)
L. Huszár: British Medals in the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum in Budapest
48 Medical History in Hungary 1972 (Comm. Hist . Artis Med . Suppl. 6.) Fig. 4a Fig. 4b Fig. 20b The 06 medals can be divided into three larger groups: medals representing or commemorating persons, medals on various subjects, and tokens, badges, jetons. The most homogeneous one is, of course, the first. The earliest piece is an oval silver medal which shows the 02 year old János Bánffihunyadi (1576 — 1640), an alchimist and physician of Hungarian origin, who spent a considerable part of his life in England. The artist is unknown but the style of the portrait recalls an engraving (B. 52, Fig. I) 2. The collection has medals on three 18th century British doctors. John Locke (1032—1704), the physician and philosopher, appears on two medals. One is the work of J. Roettiers from 1739 (B. 703, Fig. 2) with the legend "Mens habitat molem" on its reverse side. The other is a French suite-medal from 1819 in the Durand-series representing outstanding personalities, and was made by a French artist, F. A. Caunois (B. 700). Both are of bronze. The medal commemorating Robert Baker, a London physician, is from 1744, the work of A. Dassier (B. 58, Fig. 3). The third is a tin medal of John Taylor (1703— 1772), a miraculous healer born in England, who died in Prague. It was engraved by A. Vestner of Nuremberg, probably in 1747 (B. 1203). The memory of Edward Jenner (1749—1823), the discovever of smallpox vaccination, is served by three medals. Two silver medals are by F. Loos (B. 566 — 567, Fig. 4a — b), with allegorical reverses, from the first quarter of the 19th century, that is they are contemporaneous, while the third was cast in bronze by the Hungarian László Deák in 1968, bearing the portrait of Jenner. The fame of the founder of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin (1809 — 1882), is preservThe most important works used in identifying the medals enumerated are: B = EduardHolzmair, Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer. Medicina in nummis. Wien, 1937. F = the catalogue of the Faludi collection, quoted above. St —Horatio Robinson Storer, Medicina in nummis. A Descriptive List of the Coins —Medals —Jetons relating to Medicine. Boston, 1931.
