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TANULMÁNYOK - Bugyi Balázs: Az iparegészségügy kezdetei Magyarországon (1928-ig) (angol nyelven)
and processing of flax, hemp and jute, likewise in the bakery and confectionary branches and in the tanning of hides. (On account of this statement we may regard Jacobovics today as a pioneer of occupational dermatology.) b) Poor social conditions such as prevailed mainly in the class of factory workers, have contributed to increasing the frequency and severity rate of diseases; consequently the branch of industrial health is closely related with the science of social medicine. However, Jacobovics never came to reading his lectures because of the outbreak of the 1848/49 war of independence. Later, in the first half of the term 1850/51 the medical faculty gives permission to announce a "dermato-pathologic and syphihdologic" lecture course for three lessons a week in German and Hungarian but the matter fails again for the lack of suitable locality. Jacobovics then appeals to the municipal authority for allowing him once more to deliver lectures at Rókus Hospital and Mayor Konstantin Terczy readily complies with the request in view of the wide spread of venereal diseases during the elapsed two years of warfare and the difficult problems facing the municipal authorities how to check them. The "Policlinic" established as a result within the Rókus Hospital provides opportunity for Jacobovics not only to "read lectures on the subjects of syphilis, skin diseases and various ailments occurring in artisans of certain trades" but, by imparting knowledge on all this, also to raise interest in the young generation of physicians for the social outlook of medicine and for health problems of the working class. When the political investigation committee of the University judged him as a person who had sympathized with the revolution and maintained contact with the revolutionary party, Jacobovics emigrated from Hungary and settled down in Vienna to start an extensive private practice of dermatology. His testamentary bequest of a large foundation in favour of resourceless medical students at the University of Pest is a beautiful proof of loyal feelings towards his native country and his school of graduation. Dropped with his quitting were the instruction courses on the subject of vocational diseases and the subject matter of lectures by Sauer was limited to "dermatology and syphilology." V. Gradually as Hungary advanced on the road of industrial development, so increased the number and severity of occupational damages, especially that of industrial accidents. To cope efficiently with the latter under the primitive conditions of traumatic surger y in those times was almost out of the question. Surgeon Sándor Lumniczer who served in the Hungarian War of Liberty (1848-49) as headsurgeon in the army of General Görgey and worked after the defeat of the revolution as factory surgeon in the Vehicle Repair Shops of the Hungarian State Railways, succeeded to turn the department he had been in charge of at the Rókus Hospital, into a regular centre of traumatic surgery. With dismay during his practice as surgical consultant did he notice the fatal consequences that arose from the lack of first-aid outfits in factories liable to
