Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 57-59. (Budapest, 1971)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK — ELŐADÁSOK - Bokesová- Uherová, Mária: A nagyszombati egyetem orvostudományi karának keletkezése és szervezete (angol nyelven)

unnecessary and he suggested that in this direction professors should be more modest. The existence of a well and purposefully planted botanical garden did not seem to him to be an absolute necessity. He was of the opinion that nature itself gave enough opportunities and possibilities for botany research and medicinal plant collecting which he considered to be of the greatest significance in the study of medicine. A lack of material for dissection was no cause of worry to him. Autopsy on human bodies was simply to be replaced by zootomy. His proposals, however, could not in any way satisfy director himself, John Gilg. His criticism of Störck's proposals, together with his own views for a better solution he submitted to the highest offices. The Hungarian royal governmental council retained his elaborate and their action was justified by the fact that the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty, owing to the small number of students, was not profitable. Further investments to improve the course of teaching would be unprofitable and the governmental council in the interest of saving money could not afford to agree with them. The basic requirements of the medical faculty and its professors, before all, Wenceslas Trnka, professor of anatomy, Michael Schoretits, professor of internal medicine and, the above mentioned Jacob Winterl, professor of botany and chemistry, were without any response and during the whole duration of the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty its conditions had not improved. In spite of all these inadequacies, the professors of the faculty beside their pedagogic activity carried on research and published their results. It was not only Wenceslas Trnka and Jacob Winterl who were very active in this direction, but also Joseph Plenck, professor of surgery who proved to be a very prolific and versatile author. An independent library for the department of surgary had been founded by him containing valuable textbooks and aids to teaching not only for surgery but also its related sections. Beside teaching students of medicine, the medical faculty gave opportunities to other health workers to get proper schooling and diplomas, giving them the right to carry on their vocation. This possibility related to surgeons, chemists and midwives. Their total number far surpassed the number of graduates — physicians, who together with those who gained their diplomas abroad and had them verified at the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty did not surpass forty during the whole duration of the Tyrnavia Medical Faculty. The fact that Tyrnavia, the seat of the Medical faculty, was not suited for this purpose, because of inadequacies of a local character, it was considered whether it would not be wiser to move the whole university to a more suitable place and which, of course, was to be Buda, the capital of Hungary. It was not only the Hungarian royal governmental council but also the education section of the court office in Vienna which came to the conviction that such a solution, taking into consideration the constant, although justified complaints of the medical faculty, would be the most advantageous. The assumption that in Buda it would be possible to create more favourable conditions for the successful development of medical education, proved to be, early after moving