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

merits is doubtlessly that he has achieved also the international acceptance of Ignác Semmelweis* life-work, still often debated at the beginning of the century. He has published the compelled papers of the great Hungarian obstetrician (Semmelweis: Gesammelte Werke, Jena, 1904), first in German, then in Hungarian (1906). His bibliography of Hungarian medical literature of four centuries "Medical bibliography of Hungary, 1472—1899" (Budapest, 1900) is still an indispensible manual of every researcher. His last work, based on research work of the archives and being of the importance of a reference book, is the history of the medical faculty of the Budapest University (1936). The activity of Lajos Nékám is of great importance from both the point of view of general medicohistory and the disclosure of the past of Hungarian medical culture. His book with the title "From the memories of Hungarian dermatology" (Makó, 1928) and his studies on the history of syphilis are of basic significance. It is at this place that Béla Molnár's "Medical History of Kassa" (Kassa, 1944) has to be mentioned. Although in the medicohistory of Hungary of the 17th century and 18th century, several dissertations dealing with classic, antique medicine, and especially with Hippocrates, have been published, the first monograph about Hippocrates and meeting all scientific requirements had only been published in 1910 by Gyula Hornyánszky with the title "The science of Greek enlightment". Interest towards the history of epidemiology is again revived. Beside of the book by István Bálint Nagy, "Cholera Epidemies in the County of Csanád" (Makó, 1928), this same author has given an account of new data and presented a survey of epidemies in Hungary in several shorter studies. In another paper he has dealt with witchcraft-trials, so very important from the point of view of the history of psychology. Concerning military hygiene and a most interesting period of army medicohistory is discussed by Paul Héjjá in his book ''Army hygiene in the epoch of the reoccupying of Buda", based on a great deal of reference material and rich literary data, published in 1936. Historiography of the hospitals having been started in the last decades of the 19th century, is continued. Books presenting an account of the history of the hospital of Győr (Aladár Petz) and that of Debrecen (Gábor Herpay), are followed by the well-written work by Clara Brüll, Madame Engländer

: "Physicians and hospitals in Pest-Buda (1930). The newest book on the subject is that by Henrik Hollán : "History of the Rokus-Hospital" (Budapest, 1967). From among the biographies of a very large number concerning the great personalities of the Hungarian past—their listing would far outgrow the present study—the monograph by János Orbán of "

János Sámboki" (S¾eged, 1916) and that by Árpád Herczeg of János Manordus (Budapest, 1929) have to pointed out; both works publish new data. ÁrpádHerczegh is an extremely active medicohistorian, having translated the excellent surveying general textbook of the Polish Szumowsky ("History of medical science", Budapest, 1939). Herczegh has worked-in into this book Hungarian references in the form of footnotes. i8