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look after their supply. She established a central depot whence the missing equipments of the hospitals were provided. She controlled the personnel of the hospitals and with his advisor Ignác Barna they elaborated a hospital regulation which reflected the principles of modern health organization. The establishment and activity of the nursing profession improved on the patient care, many wounded or ill soldiers owed their life and health to the devoted care of women. The Hungarian nation — besides its fight for liberty — did not forget about humanitarian principles, enjoyed by wounded imperial soldiers fallen in captivity. Much preceding the Red Cross of H. Dunant, the government always held that careful nursing and human treatment are due to the wounded even if he was an enemy at the battle-field. This principle was not only declared but also practised even if on the part of the imperial army the Hungarian prisoners of war did not enjoy the same rights. Several documents from the period prove of the humane treatment of diseased and wounded prisoners of war. The year-long struggle for independence was suppressed by the Russian and Austrian superior forces. Imperial retaliation was hard. Prisoners of war were not spared, the diseased treated in the same way. But those doctors and naturses were not spared either who had healed and nursed besides the Hungarian soldiers the wounded soldiers of the enemy as well. They were imprisoned for shorter or longer periods, together with their leader, Zsuzsa Kossuth. K. KAPRONCZAY, M.A., Dr. phil. Head of Department of the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives, Secretary of the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine Budapest, Apród u. 1/3, Hungary, H-1013 E. SZEMKEŐ, M.A., Dr. phil. Head of Department of the Ethnographical Museum Budapest, Kossuth L. tér 12, Hungary, H-1055