J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary 1972. Presented to the XXIII. International Congress of the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 6. (Budapest, 1972)
L. Huszár: British Medals in the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum in Budapest
56 Medical History in Hungary 1972 (Comm. Hist. Artis Med. Suppl . 6.) 20th century lived and worked in Budapest for a long time. Finally we may mention the medal of the Ind International Neurological Congress minted from some white metal in 1935, with the half-length portrait of J. Hughlings Jackson. (Fig. 10a —b) According to the signature on the tag it was the product of the firm J. R. Gaunt. The collection have two varieties of the medal minted for the 1893 exhibition of the pharmacisst of London. Both are the work of W. Mayer made of gilt bronze with the portrait of Queen Victoria on the observe. The circular legend on the reverse differs however: "Int. Exhibition for Hygiene Pharmaceutics and Foods" (B. 4330, Fig. 17) and "Int. Exhibition for Industry Pharmaceutics and Foods" respectively. A tin medal with Thomason as signature is to some extent also relating to hygiene: it is a belated celebration of Henry III bringing water in London through conduits in 1257 (St. 8293). Similarly the medal of the Total Abstinency Society in Cork, the work of Jones. (Fig. 18) The third group of medical medals includes tokens, and jetons which have a bearing on medicine due to their legends, pictures or functions. Here the oldest is a poor man's token from 1669. (Fig. 19a —b) The obverse bears only the legend: "A Weymouth Fastĥÿ for the Poor", the reverse shows a ship in a crest. There are several special English tokens from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. They were penny or halfpenny coppers used in everyday circulation and were issued by various institutions. Many of them had some medical connection. The following ones are in the collection (in alphabetic order together with the date of issuing): G. F. Handel's charity halfpenny, 1791; a halfpenny propagating Samuel Hannay's preventive medicine, without date (B. 5434); a penny and a halfpenny advertising the pills of Thomas Holloway, 1858 and 1851 respectively (B. 5436 and 5437, Fig. 20a —b); halfpennies with the head of John Howard the philanthropist from 1792 (B. 511, Fig, 21a-b), 1794 (B. 514), 1795 (B. 516), one without date (B. 518); and halfpennies of Bath from 1794 (B. 4015, Fig. 22a -b) and from 1795 (B. 4017). There are other kinds of jetons like Elisabeth Bayley Seton's with the legend "God is Charity" (1821), a jeton recommending the "Anodyne Necklace" of Basil Burchell of London (F. 180), a healing propaganda-token of Eady (London) with the picture of the phoenix from about 1820 (B. 5509), and finally a pharmacist's weight from 1847 with "Two Drams" on its reverse. The collection includes some badges as well. One was made in 1901¡ on the occasion of the British Congress on Tuberculosis (Fig. 23), the second originates in 1907 at the II. International Congress of School Higiene, another marks the 1910 appearance of Halleÿ's comet. There is a badge of the Children Fund Fig. 23
