Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 77. (Budapest, 1976)
TANULMÁNYOK - Kapronczay Károly: A lengyel menekültügy orvosi ellátása és szervezete Magyarországon a második világháború alatt, 1939—1945 (angol nyelven)
work. Here it must be mentioned that most of the civilian refugee doctors used to be general practitioners. The few specialists came to work in the Polish Hospital in Győr or in the Budapest central consulting room of the Polish Physicians' Group, at // Fo utca. According to the report of General Srzednicki-Kollontaj there were ten Polish physicians who continued their scientific and publicating work on Hungarian soil. For this the best conditions existed at the Polish Hospital in Győr, which was provided with a good library by the Polish Physicians' Group. The physicians working there published 23 scientific or informative writings, most of them in one of the two Polish periodicals published in Hungary, Wiesci Polski or Tygodnik Polski. A number of these writings was of informative-educative character: contained sanitary information, described the dangers of smoking and drinking, or gave advice on baby and child care. An outstanding piece of original research was the study of Rudolf Arend written together with Tibor Simon on eye movement disturbances. 37 The scientific activity of the Polish physicians was greatly facilitated by the traditional good relations existing between Hungarian and Polish medicine. One of the outstanding supports of the refugee Polish doctors was the person of Árpád Herczcg, whose translation of Wladyslaw Szumowski's History of Medicine appeared just in the autumn of 1939. Árpád Herczcg spared no effort in helping the Polish Physicians' Group in establishing contacts with the various Hungarian medical institutions. The picture of the Polish emigration would be incomplete without mentioning that during World War II eighteen students studied medicine at Budapest University, and eight of them received the diploma in Hungary. Besides the Polish Medical Faculty set up in Edinburgh Budapest was the only place where Polish medical students could study during those years. In the first year each Polish student was allowed to use any Western language on the exams, while Árpád Herczeg organized specialized language courses for them. THE ROLE OF THE HUNGARIAN AND THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS Right from September 1939 the Hungarian Red Cross took an important part in looking after the Polish military and civilian refugees. In the first months, when the social organizations helping the Poles did not take a definite shape yet, the Red Cross gave direct help to the IXth and 21st Departments respectively both in administration and in health matters. It was one of the initiators of the Hungaro-Polish Refugee Committee, which coordinated all the social organizations. It also acted as a link between the International Red Cross and the various Hungarian organizations. Another form of its help was that it established Polish sections within its own organization. The most important was the first creation: the Hungarian Agency of the Polish Red Cross, an officially independent unit, 3 " headed by dr. Eustachy Serafinowicz, in the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Its task was to keep the connection with the 37 Bibliográfii Poloniców wegierskich. pp. 104—129. 38 O. L. P. 1614. The papers of the Hungarian representative of the Polish Red Cross.
