St. Rókus Hospital
Budapest, 8th district, 2 Gyulai Pál Street
The Rókus Hospital in 1894
(Photo: Fortepan, Budapest City Archives)
Photo: Archive number: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.07.055
Source: https://tudas.hu/a-korhazakban-sokaig-tobben-is-fekudtek-egy-agyban/
This is what it looks like today
Source:
The detailed history of Semmelweiss University https://semmelweis.hu/az-egyetemrol/az-egyetem-tortenete/a-semmelweis-egyetem-tortenete/
The Rókus Hospital in 1894
(Photo: Fortepan, Budapest City Archives)
Photo: Archive number: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.07.055
Source: https://tudas.hu/a-korhazakban-sokaig-tobben-is-fekudtek-egy-agyban/
The Rókus Hospital in 1894
(Photo: Fortepan, Budapest City Archives)
Photo: Archive number: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.07.055
Source: https://tudas.hu/a-korhazakban-sokaig-tobben-is-fekudtek-egy-agyban/
THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PLACE
Founded in 1881–1882,the university department of Neurology and Psychiatry was housed in Rókus Hospital. This year, the “lunatic observation subdepartment” started operating with the leadership of university professor Károly Laufenauer. The department served healing and educational purposes as well. In the laboratory connected to the “observatory”, Károly Schaffer also worked with Laufenauer.
During his university studies, Pál Ranschburg completed his histopathology practice here, together with Artúr Sarbó and Kálmán Pándy. Due to reconstruction works, the department moved to Buda for a short time in 1889, but the connected histopathology laboratory received two rooms as a compensation in the main university building at 26 Üllői Road (the small room was shared with neurologist Károly Schaffer).
THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE
The hospital was founded in 1798 under the name “Pest Civilian Public Hospital”. A poor house also operated at the premises. This is where Ignác Semmelweiss took over the leadership of the newly independent obstetrics department in 1851. In 1875, the hospital took over the former poorhouse building, and along with it the treatment of syphilitic female patients. In 1898, two years after Roentgen’s invention, the first central X-ray laboratory in Europe was founded here.
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Bitter istván, Huszár Ilona, Szirmai Imre (2008). A Balassa utcai klinikák 100 éve. Szemelvények az intézmény történetéből. Semmelweiss Kiadó Bp.
Miskolczy Dezső ( 1971): Ranschburg Pál 1870 január 3 – 1945 január 12 (Ideggyógyászati Szemle 24,385-384p)