Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 17. (Budapest, 1960)
Prof. Dr. Halmai János: Prüfungsurkunden über Apotheken-Kontrolle in Ungarn in der ersten Hälfte des XIX-ten Jahrhunderts
nated that everything in the pharmacy be found cleanly and in a neatly arranged order". (It can be seen thus that the official study of pharmacies dates back to the 16 th century in Hungary.) The „Lex sanitaria Leopoldina", issued in 1678 deals mainly with the prophylaxis of pestilence and with the preparation of medicaments. Szepes' mentions that Leopold I. had also ordered the yearly official control of pharmacies. I have read through the original German text of this law but could not find in it any direction of this sense. It is likewise Szepes' who mentions that „the all-comprising attention of Joseph II. did not leave out of mind the pharmacies, either. Through the governorship (Consilium Regii locurntenentiale) he brought to the notice of the counties to inspect the pharmacies in their regian". The auther presented in his paper the report of such an official inspection described in German language and he commented also the text. He stated from the reports of the control in other pharmacies that Eger and Gyöngyös had in those times 2 pharmacies each and that there was I in Hatvan, this being the total sum of the pharmacies Ín the county of Heves and all of them were owned by monastic orders. In accordance with this measure the counties and free royal towns yearly reports about the health conditions of their region to the council of the governo rgeneral which moved in 1783 from Pozsony to Buda. The report was sent by the town or county magistracy on the basis of the medical officier's (physicus) accounts. Such a report generally comprised 1. the inspection of pharmacies (Relatio super viisitatis Apothecis), 2. the death cases (Consignatio super mortalitatis), 3. the weather (Mutatio athmospherae; Hydrographia), 4. the staff engaded in medical treatment (Status personalis medicum, dealing with physicians, surgeons, veterinary surgeons, pharmacists, midwives as well). 5. sanitary conditions, diseases (Relatio super negotio Sanitatis) 6. inoculations (Vaccinatio). In the National Archives I studied through the reports dealing
