Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 55-56. (Budapest, 1970)

TANULMÁNYOK - Regöly-Mérei, Gyula: The Pathological Reconstruction of Semmelweis's Disease on the Basis of the Catamnestic Analysis and Palaeopathological Examination (angol nyelvű közlemény)

THE PATHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF SEMMELWEIS'S DISEASE ON THE BASIS OF THE CATAMNESTIC ANALYSIS AND PALAEOPATHOLOGICAL LITERARY OPINIONS ON THE DISEASE OF SEMMELWEIS. THE POSSIBILITY OF PATHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION IN GENERAL AND SOME PERTAINING THEORETICAL QUESTIONS o uniform standpoint has developed up to now regarding the disease of ^ ^ Semmelweis. The following views can be met with : a) Semmelweis's mind became deranged because of his unsuccessful fight to save the life of mothers; this rather romantic presentation is unfounded and can, therefore, be disregarded. b) Fr. Schürer von Waldheim (1905, 61): mania; c) G. Sticker (192 4, 70): suspicions of syphilis; Fr. Bruck (1924, 12): J.Steudel (IMS, 14), R. Müller (1950, 42) Lange-Eichbaum (1956, 33): paralysis progressiva (according to a number of authors taboparalysis) ; d) Sinclair (1909, 69) M. Zeissl (1908, 77), P. Dawson (1924, 17), E. Ebstein (1926, 18), I. C. Venrel (1950, 72) R. Major (1904, 38): "some kind of mental disorder"; e) K. Schaffer (1939,1940, 55, 56, 57) : inflammation (56) and/or hyperaemia (57) of the brain and meninx both of secondary character; f) G. Regöly-Mérei (1958, 1970,78);L. Haranghy (1900, 1905, 24, 25a and b), G. Nyirő (1900, 1905, 43a and b, 44a and b) and G. Regöly-Mérei (1900, 1965, 51, 52a and b, 53a and b) : Bonhoeffer s exogenous infectious-bacterium toxinic reaction-type (of delirious character) produced by sepsis (osteomyelitis) ; g) I. Benedek (1967, 7): three-phase disease i.e. 1. praemorbid psychopathia, 2. some kind of chronic process of the nervous system, probably paralysis progressiva (which, however, did not affect his creative faculty), 3. acute infectious insanity brought about by osteomyelitis. I. Darvas (1967,15) did not agree with the conception of Haranghy, Nyirő and Regöly-Mérei. Benedek's conception so-to-speak represents a transition between the two extreme poles of the literary spectrum. On the other hand, E. Lesky (1968, 35), S. Fekete (1968, 21), G. Gortvay and I. Zoltán (1966, 1968, 23), EXAMINATION by G. REGÖLY-MÉREI I. 5 Orvostörténeti Közlemények 55—56.