Epidemic History Features of the First World War on the Base of the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly Paper) Cover Image

Az első világháború járványtörténeti jellegzetességei az Orvosi Hetilap egykorú számai alapján
Epidemic History Features of the First World War on the Base of the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly Paper)

Author(s): Bence Péter Bozó
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Új-és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék
Keywords: sanitary; news; studies; epidemics; acute; chronic; cholera; typhus; tuberculosis; venereal;
Summary/Abstract: The Medical Weekly Paper („Orvosi Hetilap”) has been a considerable journal about medicine since 1857 when it was founded by Lajos Markusovszky. The study of issues published under the First World War may open up new perspectives for historians. Articles between 1914 and 1918 can give us a lot of information about wartime weekdays from a sanitary viewpoint. The essay mainly focuses on news and treatises about epidemics which came up in almost every battlefield and hinterland in the war. They may divide into two groups in virtue of epidemiology: acute (cholera, typhus, petechial fever) and chronic (tuberculosis, some venereal diseases).

  • Page Range: 753-768
  • Page Count: 16
  • Publication Year: 2015
  • Language: Hungarian