Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 51-53. (Budapest, 1969)

TANULMÁNYOK - Zsebők Zoltán: A radiológia fejlődése Magyarországon (angol nyelven)

in the other parts of the world, where surgeons, orthopaedist, etc. who got acquainted with radiology through their work became radiologist. Work in the Hungarian general hospitals (both in Budapest and the country) stood on a good European level. The X-ray department of the Pest Israelite Hospital, headed by Tivadar Bársony, distinguished itself with its results. Bárány with his amassed earlier experiences in surgery and the thorough grounding obtained in the X-ray laboratory of the Charité polyclinic gave a new impetus to the development of Hungarian X-ray diagnostics after 1933. He was among the first persons to perform pharmaco-radiological examinations and made fundamental conclusions in bone-diagnosis together with his assistants, whom he accepted as co-authors. He gathered a legion of young researchers (Ödön Schulhof, Ferenc Polgár, Ernő Koppenstein, Imre Hajdú, Mária Fogel, Zsuzsa Leichner, Béla Wald, Katalin Winkler, etc.) and established a school in the best sense of the word. Numerous publications mark their scientific activity and the institute won fame with many new findings in X-ray diagnostics. The MÁV (Railways) hospital of Budapest had a similar important role: it surpassed many big European institutions in organization and equipment. Due to the untiring efforts of Zoltán Hrabovszky one of the biggest radiological institute in Hungary was established here. He was among the first persons who worked out the conditions and methods of the thérapie use of the Chaoulapparatus, in addition he successfully worked on solving the practical questions of radiation-protection. The standards of the Rókus Hospital rose high above the avarage when in 1930 Czunft, one of the best students of Kelen, was appointed to head the X-ray department. Although the department was accomodated only in four small rooms and it had only one basic apparatus for diagnostic purposes with three working-places, besides two therapeutical apparatuses with a Villard and a Wittka switch respectively, it soon became one of the best institutes. Czunft's assistants and students who worked here: Miklós Beliczay-Pavlik, Bálint Sigora, Zoltán Zsebők, and Ferenc Jancsó. Among the other X-ray departments of the country that of Szombathely (Imre Hutás), Miskolc (József Kopári) and Baja (Jenő Engelmayer) were above the avarage standard. At Szombathely at first Zoltán Wurmfeld, a former ship surgeon opened a private X-ray consulting-room, later Gyula Stranz made good use of his knowledge about the X-rays which he learned from Jedrassik, until Hetes, with rich foreign experiences, began his activity. At Miskolc the independent Roentgen-department was set up in 1828/29 in the county hospital, but even before that date internal head-physician Aladár Henszelmann, who was private professor in "Roentgendiagnostics", represented a high standard. There were good specialists at many county seats and private hospitals, too. At the Polyclinic Alexander's place was taken by Rezső Holits, in the Park Sanatorium Vidor Révész, in Győr (after 1925) József Halmi, at Gyula László Csonth, at Nyíregyháza Gyula Gaizler, etc. can be mentioned. But in the 1920s it was still quite frequent that the duties of the radiologist were performed by internal physicians, surgeons and even by pathological anatomists. The general