Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 54. (Budapest, 1970)
TANULMÁNYOK - Osváth Zsuzsa: Schoepf Merei Ágost Angliában
in a memorial lecture of Sándor Lumniczer as early as 1860. However, the necessity of inquiring into further particulars of Schoepf Merei's Manchester years, in order to integrate this eminent personality of 19 th century's medical history, has become more and more obvious in our days. A number of new details, above all those concerning the close cooperation of A. Schoepf Merei with Dr. James Whitehead, has thrown new light on the matter. It has been found that this cooperation commenced not in 1 856, as known so far, but with the first days when Schoepf Merei had arrived in Manchester and joined the staff of the Chatham Street School of Medicine. (The Chatham Street School which marked a turning point for medical training in Manchester, had been opened a year before and J. Whitehead was member of the first staff.) From this time, all the joint efforts of the two medical men were devoted to a common cause: the establishment of a children's hospital in Manchester, to be the first English clinical hospital for the training of medical students in pediatrics. Their "Suggestions for a Clinical Hospital for the Diseases of Children", a small leaflet printed and circulated in 1851, gave all particulars of the scheme and also special arguments for its establishment in Manchester. But, as the two doctors were not willing to subject themselves, as they has stated it in the "Suggestions", to restrictions and alterations on their projected scheme, they decided finally to organise and start in 1856 unaided the Clinical Hospital for the Diseases of Children, for a two years term of probate. The First and the Second Report (1856, 1857) were tests of the operations of the model institute, and careful, accurate statistical reports of scientific investigations. After the great success, friends of the hospital met instantly to organise the public support for the maintenance of the institution. Suddenly, on 12 th March 1858, Schoepf Merei died unexpected of hepatic cancer, seventeen days after breaking off his intense activity. Dr. Whitehead continued their common work, assisted by Dr. E Gumpert, a young disciple of A. Schoepf Merei, and supported by public contributions, on a growing scale.
