MEDICAL CONFERENCES
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July 9, 1952
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Medical Conferences
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la A two-day Scientific Conference of Army Medical Officers, held in the
Central Officeres Club of the People9s Army, was opened by Major-General
Kdroly Janza, a deputy Minister of National Defense and was attended by
the followings
Lt... General Istvan Szab6, also a deputy Minister of National
Defense ? representing General Mihaly Farkas
Anna Ratko Minister of Health
Frigyes Doleschali a deputy Minister of Health, a specialist
in internal diseases.
Istvan Rus7nyak .y. President of the Academy of. Sciences
Pal Gcgesi Kis Dean of the University of Medical Sciences of
Budapest
Dr. Dines Felkai no other information
and several prominent Hungarian physicians, Kossuth prizewinners,
and University professorso
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On April 17, 1952, a, ?S?ndor Kor&nyi ? Medical Rover meeting,, organized
by the Academy of Sciences was opened, by Istvan Ruisznv&k in the presence
of Anna, Ra,tko, about, 500 doctors and the Soviet Professor Germanov, The
meeting was welcomed by Bela Issekutz head of the Department of Medical
Sciences in the Academy of Science. who pointed out that this was the
first meeting to deal with the acceleration of cicatrisation. The first
report, was made by Im?e 'r-6., Professor of Hysterology and Evolution at
the Lorand EotvPs University and a Kossuth prizewinner who dealt with the
biological syraptoms of the treatment of wounds,
Lt, Colonel Gyirgy Sz ,nt; of the Medical Service,, pointed out that the
development of Hungarian knowledge about the .speeding up of
cicatrisa.tion was due to Soviet influence,
5. Dr. PP1 G +mmri, a University Professor, who spoke on the second day of
the meeting, subsequently wrote an article, emphasI7,ing that one of the
most important subjects discussed, had been the ?much neglected
territory of traumatology ? and pointing out to the 100 odd young research
workers (who had been helped to attend the meeting by the Party and the
Goverment) that the fight could not be carried out merely by voicing
Pavrlov~s dialectical slogans, an error "nt3 which many of the doctors who
spoke at the meet-ling had faller but by the sound scientific work.
mmeut s Parag_rapph. 5 illustrates the hidden struggle between some
men of science and the medical pc icy of the Communist Party,
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