Baranyai helytörténetírás. A Baranya Megyei Levéltár évkönyve, 1989. (Pécs, 1989)

Német nyelvű rezümé (Aszmann Mária)

MEDICAL HISTORY OF COUNTY BARANYA AND PÉCS AS IT IS REPRESENTED BY MEDALS (Summary) The accumulated intellectual wealth of mankind requires permanent attention of posterity. This includes not only a respectful attitude towards material remains but their careful preservation as well. Numismatics in one of the means at our disposal to study our past. Not only has it become an acknowledged side branch of history but also provides descendants with invaluable information on iconography and biography. It also plays a great part in studying the history of civilization. It was quite natural for this branch of historical science to undergo specialization, which resulted in the developing of medical numismatics. In Hungary the first outstanding person to cultivate it was Géza Faludy, a pediatrician of Budapest. His high standard collection of 3400 pieces serves as the basis of the numismatic material displayed in the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History, Budapest. The contribution made by Gyula Varannai, an internist of Budapest, is also worth mentioning. He and Lajos Huszár are the authors of the most complete catalogue of Hungarian medals related to medicine. The catalogue entitled „Medicina in nummis" gives the data of 2000 medals in English from the beginnings up to 1974. The most remarkable source book on Hungarian general numismatics in considered ,,Medallion und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn", a monography published by Lajos Huszár and Béla Procopius in 1932, including the medical medals made before. The present study is intended to investigate periods of medical history of county Baranya and Pécs related to medical medals. The first medical medal of Pécs was cast in 1845 on the occasion of the Itinerary Congress of Hungarian Physicians and Natural Scientists held in Pécs. The author is concerned with the nearly hundred year long history of the Itinerary Congresses, a unique forum for natural scientists to exhange views and discuss achievements both theoretical and practical. The social and scientific importance of three of the Congresses held in 1845, 1894 and 1927 is analysed in detail as well as the commemorative medals related to them, which are demonstrated by pictures. The first part of the second chapter is devoted to the history of Pécs University Medical School from the foundation of its legal predecessor: The Elisabeth University of Pozsony, which moved to Budapest owing to political changes after the 1st World War and found its final location in Pécs later on. In the second part of the chapter the author gives a detailed analysis of medals depicting professors, events, buildings and departments of Pécs University Medical School as well as of the medals and plaquettes awarded by the University. The majority of them is demonstrated in the book.