J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary. Presented to the XXII. International Congress for the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 4. (Budapest, 1970)

MEDICAL HISTORY IN HUNGARY - E. Schultheisz L. Tardy: Summing-up of the Past and Present of Hungary's Medicohistorical Research Work (in English)

Lajos Fekete : "The concised history of Hungary's infectious and epidemiologic diseases" (Debrecen, 1874). Lajos Fekete's hand-written manuscript collection of the biography of Hungarian medical writers is kept by the National Széchenyi Library, as also his bibliographic trial, entitled "Survey of the the bird's-eye view of the products of Hungarian medical literature". Because of his early death, these have never been published. No doubt that from among works on Hungarian medicohistory, the monograph by Kálmán Demkó "The history of the Hungarian Medical Faculty" (Budapest, 1892) is the most important one. This excellently written book, most reliable as to data, has all along kept its character of a reference book. As seen from its subtitle, it discusses the development of Hungary's hospitals and other therapeutical institutes. As to time, the book "Physicians and medical science in Hungary from oldest times up to the beginning of our century" by Fabius Sugár, precedes the work of Demkó, can, however, as to importance not be compared to the latter. The last century's outstanding pathologist's Endre Högÿes' monograph "The memory of the past and presence of the Medical Faculty of the Royal Hungarian University of Sciences of Budapest" dealing with the history of the medical faculty and written with great precisity is also considered a book of reference (published, Budapest, 1896). In 1901, István Vámossÿs, medical officer of Pozsony (Bratislava) book, "The History of Medicine in Pozsony", again a work of reference, elaborating excellently several documental data, had been published. The most original Hungarian medical historian of the 19th century was Mór Wertner

. Beside of monographs, his papers disclosing data, published in the "Századok" (Centuries), are of special interest. Attention directed towards the past of public health became rather keen at the end of the century. One of the most original elaboration of this special subjects is the monograph by Henrik Herbert "Care of Health in Hermannstadt up to the end of the 16th century" (Hermannstadt, 1885). Again in the last decade of the century, interest had been revived towards the history of hospitals in Hungary, best shown by works by János Bókaÿ, Gábor Pap, Ignác Purjesz

, and especially Frigyes Müller'

s book: "History of Hospitals in Transylvania up to 1625" (Wien, 1856), a review of data. Kornél Chyzer has written the history on congresses of Hungarian physicians and natural scientists between 1840 and 1890, published in 1890. III. Already in the first decades of the 20th century, the number of publications on Hungarian medicohistorical literature is abundant. To begin with the name of Tibor Györy (1896—1938) has to be mentioned, who has become associate professor of medicohistory in 1902 at the University of Budapest. Several basic questions of Hungarian medicohistory were discussed by him and a great deal of new data added to our literature in his studies and numerous papers and in several of his monographs [9], He has clarified the pathological question of the Morbus Hungaricus and the Morbus Brunogallicus. One of his greatest 2 Orvostörténeti Közlemények 17