Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 102-104. (Budapest, 1983)

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tion, the fluids of the organism. After all this, in tenth extension, he treats the "'passions of the mind as these re/ate to health"

. Mihály Lenhossék, Sen. (1773 1840), chief medical officer of county Lsztergom, professor of physiology at the University of Pest, later at Vienna, "protomedicus regii" from 1825, published his work in German on the human passions in Pest, in 1806 (Darstellung der menschlichen Leidenschaften). In 1824 an enlarged and revised version was published in Vienna (Darstellung des Gemüths in seinem Beziehungen zum geistigen und leiblichen Lebenj. Comparing the concepts of the two Hungarian authors, this paper concentrates on three questions. 1. The interpretation and pattern of mental life, of intellectual-emotional functions. 2. The classification and medical judgement of emotions and their motives. 3. The possibilities of prevention and cure. Gy. BIRTALAN. Dr. Med., CSc Senior Lecturer at the „Semmelweis" Medical University, Budapest General Secretary of the Society for the History of Medicine Budapest, Kenése u. 1, Hungary, H

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