[The 1st Pediatric Clinic of the Budapest Semmelweis Medical University--an area of close German-Hungarian cooperation--from the viewpoint of its medical history treasures].
The First Department of Paediatrics of the University Hospital at Budapest has developed from the fourth children's hospital founded in Europe, and can now look back on over 150 years of history. An amazing amount of significant material has been conserved: books and manuscripts allowing insights into significant periods and events in the history of medicine, clinic records for the years 1839-1850, and very detailed reports on patients treated as in-patients between 1839 and 1841. The author has examined the in-patient reports quite closely and analysed them from the aspects of average length of stay (21.4 days), age groups, diagnoses and courses of illness, finding an overall mortality rate of ("only"!) 20% for all children and of 40% (!) for babies alone. The author describes the valuable contributions made by the hospital's founder. He then discusses the contribution of the founder's two immediate successors, the elder and younger Professor Bokai (father and son), and lists the collections dating from their time in some detail: babies' drinking receptacles, intubation instruments, section protocols, letters and photographs of eminent contemporaries of their throughout the world. He also documents the close cooperation between German and Hungarian paediatricians at this time.
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Kinderklinik Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
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