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

The Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archives of Medical History

spondcncc and manuscripts of outstanding Hungarian physicians. Its material is about 800 linear metres. Among the most interesting ones are the papers of the Royal Association of Budapest Physicians, and those of many famous Hungarian doctors, like Lajos Markusovszky, Baron Frigyes Korány¡, Countess Vilma Hugonnay, Professor István Hayna etc. The Archives also has a rich collection of mçđ¡çal diplomas issued at various universities of Europe. The József Ernyey Library of Pharmaceutical History The Ernyey Library is located in a former house of a chemist in Pest at Mátyás Squerc 3. It was János Filó, who opened his apothecary, 'The Saint Christian Pharmacy' in March 5 1882, but it was removed to the Mátyás Squcre 3 in 1890. The furniture was designed in Neo-Renaissance style by Lajos Vanicsck. The pharmacy was nationalized in 1950 and was closcd down in 1978. Next year the Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archives opened its public library for pharmaceutical history in this building, named the József Ernyey Library. József Ernyey (1874-1945) was a chemist, historian and folklorist. Between 1934-37 he was general director of the National Sciencc Museum in Budapest. As we have mentioned above, he was involved in setting up the first Hungarian pharmaceutical museum in 1908. The books of this institute and those of many pharmaceutical societies formed the base of the collection have been in the possession of the Semmelweis Museum since 1968. The Ernyey Library collccts pharmaceutical books, journals and theses and pharmacopoeias from 1800. The collection of pharmaceutical theses includes more than 2/3 of all such dissertations of Hungarian universities. And another special collcction is the Pharmacist Diaries from 1870. 89