Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)
Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts (Guide for the Exhibition)
çellent surgeon. Flór defended his doctor's thesis in Hungarian in 1834. He was the first in surgery to use chloroform as a general anaesthetic. The material referring to this period is exhibited in four show-cases. The first volumes of the "Medical Magazine " and the "Hungarian-Latin - LatinHungarian Medical Dictionary " are displayed here together with a manuscript of a collection of medical words, contemporary medical works and the famous work of József Sadler (1791-1849) physician, pharmacist and botanist, entitled "A magyar plánták szárított gyűjteménye" ("Dried Collection of Hungarian Plants") - published in 1824. In the first low show-case there are documents referring to János Teofil Fabini (1791-1847), the first professor of ophthalmology: his prescription from 1828, his door-plate and his writings in Hungarian language. The material is completed with two sets of ophthalmological instruments, the so called Schuster eye-dropper made of blown glass and anatomical instruments. The second show-case contains documents referring to the cholera-epidemics of 1831 and Ágost Schoepf Merei's (1804-1858) scheme of his "Children's Hospital " (1836) which has come down to us in a manuscript form. Mention should be made of the dove-shaped opaline glass baby's comforter (Plate XV.). Next to the almost complete kit of obstetric instruments dating from the beginning of the 19th century, there is the small bust of David Grubÿ (18091899) and his letter of Hungarian interest. Grubÿ lived in Paris and was one of the most famous physicians of his age. He became private physician to the two Dumases, to Balzac, Heine, Chopin and Gambetta. The portraits, diplomas and other documents exhibited on the panels above the show-cases inform us of the intellectual activities the result of which was the establishment of the Budapesti Orvosegyesület (Budapest Medical Association). This organization wished to concentrate the discordant medical profession into a firm organization. The year 1841 is significant, it marks the foundation of the Magyar Orvosok és Természetvizsgálók Vándorgyűlése (Itinerary Congress of Hungarian Physicians and Naturalists) at the initiative of Ferenc Bene . The Természettudományi Társulat (Natural Science Association) was founded in the same year. Below the above mentioned obstetric instruments there are two precious illustrated albums to be seen : Kilián's "Geburtshilflicher Atlas" and "Geburtshilfliche Demonstrationen" published in Weimar in 1824. 2. The Second " Vienna School " Clinical medicine was established in Vienna by Gerard van Szoieten and Anton De Haen, the disciples of Boerhaave. With the assitance of Stoerck, S oll, Auenbrugger, Frank and Boer they founded the the first Viennese medical school and thus Vienna became a European centre for medical teaching. At the
