Magyar László szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 178-181. (Budapest, 2002)

TANULMÁNYOK - ARTICLES - Kóczián Mária - Kölnéi Lívia: A homeopátiás gyógyítás története Magyarországon

1906: Budapesten az egyetem orvosi karán hivatalosan is megszüntetik a homeopátiás tanszéket 1908: Schimert Gusztáv Budapestre jön 1911 : Bakody Tivadar halála 1918-1944: Schimert Gusztáv az Elisabethinumban (később Szövetkezetek Erzsébet Kórháza) homeopátiás osztályt vezet 1935: a Nemzetközi Homeopátiás Orvosi Liga 10. Kongresszusa Budapesten 1944-1955: Schimert Gusztáv Stuttgartban 1950 az 1950: 25. törvényerejű rendelet intézkedik a közforgalmú gyógyszertárak államosításáról 1950-1990: Schimert Arnd, Botfalvy József, Patay István, Breznay Géza tevékenységükkel megteremtik a homeopátia gyakorlásának folytonosságát Magyarországon 1991 : megalakul a Magyar Homeopata Orvosi Egyesület MÁRIA KÓCZIÁN, M.A. historian LÍVIA KÖLNÉI, M.A. museologist H-l 154 Budapest Népfelkelő u.54. HUNGARY SUMMARY This article tells the story of homeopathy in Hungary. After Hahnemann's discovery the theory found enthusiastic followers even in Hungary. The first generation of homeopthaic physicians (Pál Almási Balogh, József Bakody, György Forgó and others) established a successful practice, although the doctrine had been banned in the Habsburg Empire from 1819 onwards. Thanks to he activity of the so-called second generation (Ferenc Hausmann, István Vezekényi Horner) Hahnemann's main work, the Organon was traslated into Hungarian (1830) and the first homeopathic hospitals were founded in Kőszeg (1833) and in Gyöngyös (1838). In 1837 the order banning homeopathical practice was removed, and in 1844 the Hungarian Parliament decided to establish a homeopathic department at the University of Pest. In 1847 Döme Argenti published his extraordinarily successful homeopathic book Homeopathic Treatment of Various Illnesses". In the 1860ies a new generation of physicians (Tihamér Almási Balogh, Lóránt Hausmann, Ábrahám Szontagh and others) published the first Hungarian homeopathic periodicals the Hasonszenvi Közlöny and the Hasonszenvi Lapok and, at the same time, they founded the Society of Hungarian Homeopathic Physicians (1865), too. In 1870 the first homeopathic hospital, the Elisabethinum, opened its gates, and at the University of Pest two different homeopathic departments began to operate. At the end of the century however, homeopathy entered into a period of decline, due to the resistance of the conventional physicians and the successes