Orvostörténeti közlemények
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Historical Article
[The most important sources of the Graeco-Arabic medicine].
The author gives a comprehensive guide to Hungarian scholars, who attempt to search the history of Graeco-Arabic medicine and dietetics, respectively. This guide contains a short introduction into the different types of sources, lists the main authors, editions and texts available in Hungary indicating the libraries where the sources are to be found. The author organizes his material according the the main authors of the subject. Helped by this useful "database" researchers might be able to avoid difficulties of the first steps on this still, actually, largely unexplored field of the history of medicine .
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Historical Article
[Hungarian university lecturers and professors of pathology from Arányi to the present days].
Lajos Arányi (Lostainer), who introduced pathological anatomy into Hungary, was born in Komárom in 1812. He lost his father at the age of three, and then was adopted by one of his wealthy uncles. Arányi first studied at the faculty of arts and later law at university, but after a cholera epidemic in 1831, in which he helped the infected in Pest, he changed his mind and went over to the faculty of medicine. ⋯ In his objectives he was helped by Ignác Stáhly, Agost Schöpf-Merei and János Balassa. His introductory lecture took place in 10 April 1844, and his regular lectures and demonstrations started from the autumn. His autopsy records were rather modern, he used clear and logical categories. ...
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Historical Article
[Lecturers in chemistry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Nagyszombat].
After a short introduction on the development of the medieval universities at Pécs, Obuda, and Pozsony, and mentioning those who lectured in medicine in Hungary, the authors emphasise that modern chemistry was born during the 16th and 17th century. They stress the role of Paracelsus who invented iatro-chemistry, and that the first independent chairs, were founded in Germany in the beginning of 17th century at Altdorf, Marburg, Jéna, but were followed suit by Paris, when the Jardin des Plantes were erected. The first chemical textbook, the Cours de Chimie (Paris 1665), was also the work of a Frenchman, namely Nicolas Lémery (1645-1715). From the 18th century chemistry was also included in the curriculum of medical education in Hungary. ⋯ He led the department until 1860, when he moved to the University of Graz. Though in 1850 the department was removed from the medical faculty to the faculty of arts, because the universitiy began to educate secondary-school teachers as well, the education of medical students was carried on there for another century. The authors mention Károly Than (1834-1908), who became Wertheim's successor at the department.