Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 66-68. (Budapest, 1973)

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grassantium ...) was published in 1717. It may also be of interest that Semmelweis undertook the direction of the Central Institute of Vaccination in the years between 1862-1864. Mihály Ignác Lenhossék made a very good research work concerning the influence of the temperament and psychic effects on the diseases (1824). His works dealing with cholera (1831) are also famous. From 1858 to 1860 Jan Nep. Czermák (1828-1873) the prominent Czech scientist, one of the inventors of the laryngoscope, was Professor of Physiology on the Medical Faculty in Pest. During his professorate in Pest he wrote about the essence of laryngoscopy (1859), the method of the examination with speculum of the naso-pharynx and of the nasal cavity (1860) as well as about his investigations connected with the accomodation of the eyes (1860). Owing to language difficulties Czermák left our University. Lectures were held originally in Latin at the Faculty of Medicine, later following the decree of Joseph IL in German and then again in Latin. In the time of the War of Independence of 1848-49 Article XIX. declared the national character of the University, the teaching in Hungarian language and the academic freedom, but after the defeat of the War of Independence was German ordered to be introduced again. In 1860 due to the memorandum of the University of Pest the old demand was at last fulfilled and lectures and management took place in Hungarian (Minister-Conferenz, K.Z. 2760, 860, 9. August 1860, Wien). Czermák who took a lively interest in the activity of the "Progressive Wing" of the hungarian physicians and belonged to the closest circle of friends of Markusovszky and Semmelweis could not speak Hungarian and although Markusovszky did his best to retain him as Professor in Pest, he resigned of his own accord, because of language difficulties and left the country but often returned as visitor. Jenő Jendrassik (1824-1891) Professor of Physiology is one of the founders of Hungarian Experimental Medicine. Of great importance are his investigations in the field of myography chiefly on the electric excitability of muscles (Erster Beitrag zur Analyse der Zuckungswelle der quergestreiften Muskeln, Arch. Physiol. 1874). Pál Plósz (1844-1902) Professor of Biochemistry, dealt mainly with the chemistry of proteins and studied their structure. He threw light on the biological significance of the peptones (1870, 1877) as well as on the chemical properties of biréfringent substances in the striated muscles (1870). Kálmán Balogh (1835-1888), Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology, introduced experimental pharmacological investigations in our country. From his many-sided work we want to mention his investigations on the pharmacochemistry of tetracylchlorathydrat (1873), and mercuriaethyl (1875), further on the effect of the brain on the motions of the heart (1876). Endre Hőgyes (1847-1906) was one of the greatest Hungarian researchers. His most important investigations were concerned with the neural mechanism of associated eye movements (nystagmus) and their labyrinth origin (it was published in Hungarian in 1880-1885, item: Über die Wirkung einiger chemischer 4 Orvostörténeti Közlemények 66—68