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

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

political atmosphere of the inter-was years the Hungarian radiologists could not unite their ranks to work together. The fate of the X-ray department of the Korányi university hospital following Elischer's leaving to Debrecen needs further mention. The department was taken over by Nándor Ratkóczy, under whose direction and guidence a long line of radiologist grew up: Géza Györgyi, András Gaál, Ferenc Asztalos, Emil Füssl, József Fülöp, Gyula Frigyesi, Béla Gimes, Ferenc Vándor ant others. Ratkóczy and his associates had to stand many hardships, because after the death of Sándor Korányi, in 1930, they became "superfluous" : the new professor brought with him his own people even for the X-raying tasks. So Ratkóczy was forced to move into the so called Rákos-pavilion of the 1st Surgical Hospital, a military barracks left from the world war, until 1943, when as successor of Kelen he was appointed to the chair of the university in Budapest. The importance of the chair of the Budapest university increased after the liberation, partly due to the rapid development of science, partly because the chair in Pécs was eventually also suspended and so there was only one university department left. It added to its importance that radiology was made a compulsory examination subject by Zsebök, who at that time lead the university and scientific department of the Ministry of Public Education. On Ratkóczy's request later Zsebök raised the "institute" of the Surgical Hospital to the rank of "university clinic". Our space prevents us from reciting the merits and scientific achievements of Ratkóczy, fit to the doyen of Hungarian radiology. His results in radiationprotection, stomach-diagnosis, the radiotherapy of lymphogranulomatosis will last. Roentgenology saw a very rapid progress after the second world war in Hungary as well. The 1st Hungarian Radiological Congress in 1961 was a significant event, with nearly three hundred foreign participants. New university departments came into being: the "Orvos Továbbképző Intézet" (Medical Post-Graduate School), Szeged, Debrecen, Pécs, where work started with great fervour. Since 1962 Pál Deák is professor at the Post-Graduate School, Tibor Szenes, György Benkő, and Gyula Vargha (following the death of Gábor Jona) are professors at Szeged, Pécs, and Debrecen respectively. It was an unfortunate decision and a breach of the development to introduce two separate post-graduate degrees in radiology: "Roentgen specialist" and "oncoradiologist" instead of the comprehensive "specialist in radial treatments" qualification. It is not less deplorable that the medical employment of isotopes slipped out of the hands of the radiologists at many places. In the last twenty years many well-written roentgen-monographies and textbooks appeared which represent a high level. Most of them came out in foreign languages as well, among others the works of Ratkóczy, Zsebök, Erdélyi, Rodé, Gefferth, etc. The present writer regrets that he could give only an outlined and mocaiclike picture and hopes that there will be a competent medical historian who will write everything which was left out of this summary. He also had to forgo to relate the social and communal activities of the last two and a half decades in