Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
Communicationes de História Artis Medicinae and Libri Históriáé Medicae
COMMUNICATIONES DE HISTÓRIA ARTIS MEDICINAE and LIBRI HISTÓRIÁÉ MEDICAE T he Semmelweis Medical Historical Library houses the Editorial Board of the Communicationes de História Artis Medicinae. The periodical is published quarterly and publishes works relating to all aspects of the history of medicine and pharmacy. It is published by the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library and the Hungarian Society of Medical History. It was first published in 1955 as Communicationes ex Bibliotheca Históriáé Medicae Hungarica edited by the Hungarian Medical Historical Library. Until 1968 43 volumes were issued. Then,-when the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum and Library were united - its sphere of contents became wider, it appeared in a new form and became known among the medical historical institutes, museums, libraries and scholars in Hungary and abroad. The aim of the periodical is to serve researches into medical history, to complete the scientific activity of the Museum and Library. Beyond its special field it contributes to Hungarian and world history and cultural history. Since 1968 (Vol. 44.) the Communicationes has a mixed contents: Essays, Smaller Articles, Data, Book Reviews and Chronicle. In certain cases, however, the volumes are dedicated to the memory of some important event or anniversary and only articles relating to the special subject are published. E. g. two volumes commemorated Ignác Semmelweis: Vol. 46-47 (1968) was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of his birth, while two years later Vol. 55-56. (1970) was also dealing with him alone. Vol 51-53 (1969) commemorating the 200th anniversary of the medical faculty of Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Czechoslovakia), the predecessor of the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest. It was followed by Vol. 57-59 published in 1971 which contained the lectures delivered in Szomolány (Smolenice, Czechoslovakia) and Budapest at the conferences and celebrations arranged on account of the anniversary. The rest of the volumes cover a wide field. Most of the articles were on or related to the history of medicine and pharmacy in Hungary. Parallel with them several questions of foreign medical history were discussed. Among them many
