Professor Jaroslav Hlava and his successors - a remembrance on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hlava institute.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hlava institute, which was ceremoniously held on April 18, 1921. The opening of the institute was the result of many years of Professor Hlava´s efforts to provide a dignified space for pathology at the Czech university. Hlava fundamentally influenced Czech pathology and was undoubtedly one of the most important personalities of not only Czech and European pathology, but the entire field of Czech medicine of the period. His influence on pathology and microbiology is indisputable and widely known, but he has also fundamentally influenced other fields, especially oncology. On the occasion of this important anniversary the following entry offers a look at the personality of Professor Jaroslav Hlava and provides an overview of his research activities, as well as a complete list of his publications. The successors of Professor Hlava in the position of the head of institute are also briefly listed.

100th anniversary of the opening of the Hlava institute.

The paper comemmorates a centenary of construction of the current building for the Czech Institute for Pathological Anatomy (First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague) at Albertov, Prague. Project for the building was being developed since 1911, the construction works began three years later only to be interrupted by the onset of the WWI. The final inspection was carried out in 1921. The building served not just the Institute for Pathological Anatomy, but also Institute for Forensic Medicine as well as Institute for Microbiology and Serology. The Hlavas institute is considered to be an exceptional example of a modern interwar medical facility in the central Europe.

[Professor J.Hall's merit on the development of Prague Medical Faculty]. / Zásluhy prof. Josefa Hally o rozvoj prazské lékarské fakulty.

Hall was a remarkable personality among professors in Prague Medical Faculty. He was an extremely capable organizer and founder of the successful institutions that made Prague Medical Faculty famous. In 1844 he founded the University Journal, in 1845 he initiated the establishment of a laboratory for chemical and clinical examination in the general hospital, in 1847 he opened the University outpatient clinic, the first in the Austrian monarchy. He was an excellent teacher; however, his publications activity was small. Professor Hall belongs to the principal representatives of the so-called Prague Medical School.

[Double jubilee of undervalued professor J. D. John]. / Dvojnásobné jubileum nedoceneného profesora J. D. Johna (1764-1814).

Paper draws attention to an interesting personality of a professor of medical police and forensic medicine, overlooked by historians. This year 250 years has passed since his birth and 200 years since his death. Professor Johns biography is given and his work appraised.

[Teaching at the Czech Faculty of Medicine has started 130 years ago]. / Pred 130 lety byla zahájena výukana ceské lékarské fakulte

Act on the division of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague into the Czech and German universities was signed by the emperor on 28 February 1882. Czech Faculty of Medicine was able to start education only in the school year 1882/83, one year after the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts. It was necessary to establish all institutes of theoretical medicine and some clinical departments, because German professors transferred their clinics to the German University, which the Act allowed. Celebration of the beginning of the teaching at the Czech Faculty of Medicine was imposing and it was described in the Journal of Czech Physicians and in the daily papers.

[The fate of a model of Pathological Anatomy Institute of Medical Faculty in Prague]. / Osudy modelu patologicko-anatomického ustavu prazské lékarské fakulty.

In the former Pathological Anatomy Institute of the German Medical Faculty in Prague (U Nemocnice 4) a rare model of this building, made in 1861 for the World Exhibition in London has been preserved. The model was finally not sent to the London exhibition. Documents illuminating the fate of this valuable monument found in the National Archive. Thanks to the department head emeritus PhDr. A. Malecková and her successor Ph.Dr. H. Skálová this model was professionally restored by Mr. Antonin Hruska in 2010.

[Anniversaries of Josef Thomayer - 85 years since the death, 160 years since the birth]. / Výrocí Josefa Thomayera - 85 let od smrti, 160 let od narození

Study summarises the life, work, pedagogical and popularization activities of Josef Thomayer on the basis of his publications and writings as well as archival sources.

[Colleagues of Prof. J. Thomayer as in his notices from 1905-1918]. / Kolegové profesora Josefa Thomayera v jeho zápiscích z let 1905-1918.

There are 10 dairy pocket books in the inheritance of the professor of the internal medicine Josef Thomayer in the Literary archives of the Memorial of National Literature. From the point of view of the history of medicine they have not been used yet. Except of memories concerning his colleagues there are also some events mentioned that had upset Thomayer--the conflict with the pathologist Hlava concerning the cause of the death of J. Hlávka, the conflict with the surgeon Kukula concerning the way of treatment of the appendix.

[Quadruple anniversary of Bohumil Eiselt]. / Ctyrnásobné jubileum Bohumila Eiselta (1831-1908).

Internist Bohumil Eiselt belongs to eminent personalities of the Prague Medical Faculty. Since the summer semester in 1861, he purposefully and systematically persuaded the Czech as the teaching language at the Prague Medical Faculty. In 1871, his clinic was recognized as the first Czech clinic of the not yet divided Prague Medical School. In 1881, he managed to get the largest clinic of internal medicine in the general teaching hospital which, after the activation in 1883, was transferred at the Czech Medical School. It ensured the Czech medics good conditions for learning internal medicine. Bohumil Eiselt stood at the cradle of the Czech Medical Association and the Journal of Czech Physicians, founded in 1862, whose introduction was necessary for the development of professional medical Czech. The same importance had his publishing the edited compendium Professional pathology and therapy in the years 1878-1889 and organizing the first congresses of Czech medical doctors.

Rokitansky and his first description of polyarteritis nodosa.

Karl Rokitansky, Professor of Pathology at the University of Vienna described polyarteritis nodosa in 1852 in a 23 year old man with a 5-day history of fever and diarrhoea.