Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 18-19. (Budapest, 2000)

Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts - Guide to the Exhibition

private doctor of the Baron Eötvös and the Trefort families. These connections with the influential opposition leaders developed into a closc friendship. His wide intellectual ability, manifold talents and excellent qualities in organizing made him an energetic supporter of new ideas. He was the owner and editor of the Orvosi Hetilap (Mcdical Weekly), which was first published on 4 June 1857, and which has been the forum of the Hungarian mcdical society ever since. His name is also connected with the foundation of the Magyar Orvosi Könyvkiadó Társulat (Hungarian Mcdical Publishing Socicty), which was set up in 1863. It was also Markusovszky who urged Semmelweis to publish his discovery. After the Compromise between Austria and Hungary in 1867, when Baron Eötvös was trusted with the Ministry of Educational Affairs, came Markusovszky's time to put his program into practicc. First he had been chargcd with the mcdical training and later with all university affairs. After the death of Eötvös in 1871, Trefort took over the Ministry and he continued to employ Markusovszky. Markusovszky modernized medical training, set up special university departments in public health and promoted clinical education. He indeed laid down the foundations of the post-graduate and postdoctorate education of physicians. During the last third of the 19th ccntury he took an active part in elaborating programs for reforming Hungarian national health services. The establishment of the National Public Health Council, and the National Public Health Association were the immediate outcomes of these labours. He also collaborated in writing the Parliamentary proposal of the Public Health Act (1876:XIV). These institutions and the Parliamentary Act altogether provided Hungary with an up-to-date national health service. Both the show-case and the panel arc dedicated to the life and work of Markusovszky, they present documents on certain important milc-stoncs of his career. Above the large show-case with glass walls there is a picturc of the professor of the mcdical faculty of the University of Pest dated from 1863, a lithography by József Marastoni (1834-1895). In the show-case you can see the following objects: surgical instruments, from 1827; an autopsy report of the St Rochus Hospital signed by Semmelweis and the model of Semmelweis's skull, made after the exhumation in 1963. 3. Sándor Lumniczer Sándor Lumniczer (1821-1892), was another great personality of the Balassa circlc, a grandson of István Lumniczer, the first representative of a famous dynasty of Hungarian physicians. Sándor Lumniczcr studied in Pest and Vienna, and received his M.D. in Pest in 1844. He made another degree in obstetrics at Vienna in 1847. Both diplomas are on show together with the enlarged photograph of Lumniczer and his disciplcs. His thesis, the Orvossebészi értekezés a képið sebészetről 71