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)

G. Buzinkayt Hungarians on Great Britain, 1620—1848. (Observations on English Education and Public Health in Hungarian Travelogues)

ioo Medical History in Hungary 1972 (Comm. Hist. Artis Med. Suppl. 6.) methodizing philosophers state it, at least in England these two fit like counter­moving meshing gears: they lift the bur don, the fate ot the country —together... While one provides his people with coal, gas, fish transported from a thousand miles, or water caught from hundred wells, with fruit grown in tropical plantations ; wine, wood, plants and precious spice from all over the world, the other insures your fortune against damage and the life of your family, builds workhouse for the poor, hospital for the sick, (the endowment of which might amount to 2 million silver florins). This public spirit to be traced in the smallest and greatest things alike, from home life to state life , has made the British nation an empire : unique in the world in past and present, this is responsible for the meanest thirst for lucre and to be combined with the most divine generosity, this made the citizens one by one and the nation as a whole opulent, only this can be the reason why Great Britain was able not only to wish great things but also to be able to carry them out and. not only to be able to carry them out but actually fulfill them".* 1 4 1 Szemere, op. cit. pp. 51-52.

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