Szemészet, 2004 (141. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2004-06-01 / 2. szám
202 Ж Szemészet sor Takáts contained an article by Ferenc Kuhn titled “Two-handed operation using the Klöti Standard Vitreous Stripper”. This was the author’s first publication in the field which later became his speciality. Pars plana vitrectomy had been used at the Pécs clinic since 1981. I call attention to an article by László Pintér, titled “100 years of the applanation tonometer”. Expressing a perspective which is just as valid today, Pintér writes: “Even being in possession of the best tonometer instrument, we should never forget that it is not the elevated ocular pressure, but rather the glaucoma, and the person suffering from it, which are to be treated.” Attendance at professional Congresses held abroad became more widespread. At the congress held in Graz, Austria, the Society was represented by two lecturers and by several posters. There were 10 attendees from Hungary. The winners of the 1985 scholarships were, for the “7 November” awards: András Berta, János Németh with Andrea Facskó, Péter Vincze, and Klára Aczél with Mihály Végh. The Papolczy award went to Péter Jobbágyi with his colleagues Eva Pokorny and Eva Gáti. Obituaries of the year 1985: István Grósz (b. 1909) who died at the age of 76; and Professor Tibor Nónay (b. 1899), previous Director of the 2nd Department of Ophthalmology, who died on 19 September. 1986-1990 On 31 January 1986 the Society held a general assembly. Unfortunately the minutes of the meeting are rather laconic. The main topic was the organisation’s financial problems, and possible solutions to them. The members unanimously rejected the recommendation by the MOTESZ agency that the Society should set up a disciplinary committee. In 1985 the Society had established a memorial award, the Imre - Blaskovics Medal, for the recognition of merit in ophthalmology. The artistic design of the medal itself was the work of Márton Váró from Debrecen. In 1986 the medal was awarded for the first time; it went to László Remenár, chief physician at the National Institute for Neuro-surgery and Editor-in-Chief of “Szemészet”, and Professor emeritus H. Neubauer from Cologne. In the 1986 issues of “Szemészet” we find several articles on the history of medicine. One was a valuable summary titled “Jubilees in the history of modern Hungarian ophthalmology”, by Imre Bíró. István Győrffy published a call for the compilation of a biographical encyclopaedia of Hungarian ophthalmologists. He requested assistance from the membership in providing material. The encyclopaedia was in fact published the following year, in 1987. In 1987 the birthdays of three eminent Hungarian ophthalmologists were celebrated: Professor György Imre was 60; Gábor Brooser was also 60, and the year marked the 10th anniversary of his Directorship of the Postgraduate School of Medicine (OTE). Also in this year László Remenár, whom we have just mentioned above, was 70 years old. He had been editing “Szemészet” for a total of 34 years. In Professor Brooser’s honour the OTE Further Training Council and the OTE Eye Clinic organised a scientific conference on 29 April. The year marked not only these personal anniversaries of Professor Brooser, but also the 110th jubilee of the foundation of the Ophthalmology Department. Piroska Follmann, as a member of the Council of the European Ophthalmology Society, announced the availability of grants to assist doctors to attend the VIII. Ophthalmology Congress to be held in Lisbon in 1988, whose theme was to be on uveitis. The grants were intended for doctors born after 1 January 1953. Follmann also gave an account of the XXV. International Ophthalmology Congress held in Rome in 1986. Gábor Futó and Anna Soproni summarised the events of the symposium on ophthalmic trauma held at the Helmholtz Institute in Moscow from 20-24 October 1986. It is apparent from the articles appearing in “Szemészet” that the team led by Helga Hammer at the Szeged eye-clinic was conducting high-level research on the topic of immunology. Facskó and colleagues at the same time were working on examination of the ocular lens, in connection with the elucidation of the development of cataract. At the 1st Department of Ophthalmology in Budapest, under the directorship of Radnót, the research using the electron microscope continued. This work continued, with ever-growing external collaboration, under the subsequent directorship of Margit Varga. For example at the conference of the European Federation of Veterinary Anatomists held in Budapest in 1986, a joint paper was presented on the retinal ultrastructure of the bird embryo. In the first “Szemészet” issue of 1987 Vörösmarthy published an article titled “Viscosurgery” summarising the history and use of viscoelastic materials in ocular surgery. There were several studies (by Németh and Végh) from the Szeged eye-clinic on problems relating to the tear-ducts. In 1987 Béla Alberth was elected an honorary member of the Ophthalmological Society of the German Democratic Republic. The “7 November” awards were from this time renamed the “15 March” awards (thus replacing a commemoration of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 with one for the Hungarian freedom-struggle of 1848). An important statement in “Szemészet” summarised the new rules on the spelling of medical terms as agreed by the various committees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1988 a new society for IOL matters, SHIOL (Societas Hungarica ad Impiandam Oculi Lenticulam), was founded. Its president was Dániel Vörösmarthy, the vice-president Bálint Kovács, secretary Gábor Futó; other executive board members were Lóránt Galli and Gyula Gonda. In this year, as reported by Janáki and Pelle, modern electro-physiological examination techniques were introduced in the eye clinic of the Szeged medical school. Also in Szeged, a 3-day further-training course on “Basics of echo-ophthalmography” was given by Dr. Németh. Magdolna Zajácz
