Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 8-9. (Budapest, 1958)

Prof. Kótay Pál: A „Pax corporis”

so io say, semi-doctors and learned there until they got their (1 iploma. Such a personality of the Hungarian medical past is Ferenc Pápai Páriz, Senior (1(549—1716), a professor at the Reformed (Protestant) College of Nagyenyed, who taught also hygiene there. He qualified as a doctor in Basel, in 1674. Subsequently ho became the municipal health officer of Debrecen and was invited to teach in the Nagyenyed college Greek, physics and logics. Among his numerous works the most prominent one is the book entitled Pax Corporis, first published in Kolozsvár in 1690, that is discussed in detail in this paper. A very valuable and still useful work of his is the Dietionarium latino-hungaricum et bungarico-latinum. Pápai Páriz has greatly contributed to the cause of Hungarian medicine by acquiring scholarships for the students of the Nagyenyed College to continue medical studies in Germany and Switzerland.