title: [Health care in Western Europe in the late 18th century, as reported in Sámuel Cseh-Szombaty's travel journal].
abstract: Medical doctors working in Hungary and Transylvania were all trained abroad before the medical faculty of the University of Nagyszombat was founded in 1769. Most Roman Catholic medical students were trained in Vienna and Italy, whereas Protestants in Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. In the 18th century a total of 500 Hungarian medical students studied at universities in Western Europe. Medical students' peregrination did not involve academic training only: whenever they had the possibility, students visited renowned hospitals, university clinics and famous doctors in order to gain experience and medical practice to complete their education. Sámuel Cseh-Szombaty studied in Pest and Göttingen, obtained his medical doctor's diploma in Vienna in 1790, and then spent a year and a half at various medical institutions in Germany, The Netherlands, and England. Cseh-Szombaty's so far unpublished travel journal and alba amicorum provide a wealth of information about the practical knowledge that could be learned during peregrination, characteristics of medical training, patients' treatment, quality of German hospitals of the late 18th century, where the most famous doctors worked. It is an exciting description, how a doctor from Hungary spent his time studying in Western Europe.
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: Irén
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rab
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005858:Germany; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D009426:Netherlands; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014195:Travel
keywords: Enlightenment; egészségügyi ellátás a XVIII. században; felvilágosodás; health care in the 18th century; medical training; orvosképzés; peregrination; peregrináció