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

L. Huszár: British Medals. 49 ed by quite a rich collection, most of which were made for the hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1909. A oneside bronze portraitplaquette was issued by the Stuttgart firm of Mayer & Wilhelm (St. 789). The German Karl Goetz made a smaller silver and a larger bronze medal

: both reverses show an ape kneeling before a skull (St. 785a), while another plaquette by the Hungarian Szilárd Sződy shows his portrait (St. 789b). The original bronze moulding of the latter is also part of the collection. There is another Darwin-medal worth mentioning which might be considered a rarity. It is a one-side alloy of bronze with a half-length portrait of the scientist (with a diameter of 57 mm) without any legend or signature. It is known to be the work of József Reisner, a graver in the Hungarian Mint at the end of the 19th century.

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i (Fig. 5.) A probable explanation of the origin of the medal is that between 1887 and 1892 Reisner was learning in London in the workshop of Allan Wyon. There are two further medals of Darwin kept in the collec tion. One is a one-side halflength moulded bronze portrait without any legend and signature, the other is the bronze medal of the "Oesterreichische Tiermarkt" in Vienna with the portrait of Darwin on the obverse side (St. 790). There are some reward-medals relating to medicine which are closely related to the personal medals. They can be regarded as personal medals both for bearing the engraved names of the honoured ones and as they are very often named after distinguished physicians, often also bearing their portraits. The earliest such reward-medal is of Russian origin and might be of interest for those interested in John Howard (1720—1790). The bronze medal signed by the Russian artist W. Alexejeff (B. 51, Fig. 6a

—b) shows the head of the English philanthropist, the fighter against all epidemics, who died at Cherson in the Ukraine. An undated bronze medal made by the 3 The medal is described in L. Huszár and B. Procopius, Die Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn Budapest, 1932. No. 3903. 4 Orvostörténeti Közlemények 6. Fig. fia Fig. 8