Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 206-209. (Budapest, 2009)

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130 Comm. de //ist. Artis Med. 206- 209 (2009) first class ofthe German and 148 to the Hungárián course. This new contagion damaged not only human lifes, but the popularity ofthe surgical education as well. The number of students began slowly decrease. Another reason for this decrease was the new possibility for peregrination from the 1830's. In 1846/1847 48 persons matriculated to the first German course, and 49 to the Hungárián, while in the second one their number was only 10 and 20. As we can see, the German course was more populär, here canie students from the other parts ofthe Hapsburg Empire, especially Jews: from Moravia (160; 110 ofthem was Jew), Bohemia (134) or Galicia (178; 124 of them was Jew). Between 1825 and 1846 2618 surgeons matriculated to the Faculty of Pest, many of them however left it with or without doing their exams. 1854 students took every exam, but only 259 got his degree as Chirurgiae Magister in Pest, and 1049 as Chirurgiae Civilis. Presumably many students carried on their studies in Vienna. Although the Faculty of Medicine in Pest was less renowned, than the medical faculty of Vienna or Prague, it definitely played a remarkable role in the contemporaiy medical and surgical education of the Hapsburg Empire.