title: [Over a half-century at the Charles University 1st Medical Faculty. 2. Pathology under Professor Sikl].
abstract: Hlava Institute of Pathology was directed in a pleasant climate of broadminded indulgence. Sikl was easy to get in favour being personally attractive and imposing in work. He always sided with the youth and helped us even against authorities which made him more often laugh critically than treat with respect. Hlava Institute under Sikl became a model of progressing narrow specialization and modernizing. Sikl filled it with a programme of perspective development. Thus he prepared the whole discipline for cooperation which was useful for comparison of all findings with clinical picture. He made the biopsy independent and carried out its wide appreciation. He insisted upon the usage of big scale surveying histological cuts which he investigated thoroughly in detail. He did not live to see an explosion of methodological possibilities. Nevertheless, he prepared the structural diagnostics for an effective cooperation of all specialized methods.
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authors.lastname: Bednár
mesh_terms: D003604:Czechoslovakia; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000266:history*; D012577:Schools, Medical