Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 6-7. (Budapest, 1957)

NATTER-NÁD MIKSA: A magyar orvosok és a botanika

to prevent the development of pox before Edward Jenner made public his discovery, wrote and spoke much about the plants of Hungary. At that time many Hungarian physicians and surgeons studied botany. For example, István Lumnitzer, Chief Physician of Pozsony, Sámuel Genersich, Chief Physician of the Town of Lőcse, János Földi, a doctor in the Hajdu land, an innovator of botanical terminology, István Barra, Chief Physician of the county of Pest, János Baumgarten, a doctor of foreign extraction, who knew much of the flora and endemisms of Transsylvania, Lajos Jurányi, who studied the multiplication of «small algae and moss, the formation of pollen and the division of cells, József Pantocsek, District Physician of Tavarnok, a worldknown expert on silicous algae, Árpád Dégen, a prominent Hungarian botanist whose collection of 300 000 plants was the biggest in the world at that time are all famous personalities in the history of botany. Author makes mention of Jenő Halácsy, a Vienna physician of Hungarian origin, who described the flora of Greece and who had been famous for his „botanical teas" for 37 years. These teas were given in his home in Vienna. Finally, author deals with the physicians who made use of their botanical studies in practice, for example, Ferenc Entz, who founded the first Hungarian market garden and nursery garden and professor Vilmos Manninger, who improved plants by crossing. The botanizing Hungarian physicians deserve that botany should remember their names.