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M Beniak

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[History of the Surgery Clinic at the Slovak University Medical School in Bratislava during the war years (1941-1945)].

The aim of the present study was to contribute to a good and objective understanding of the development of the Department of Surgery of the Medical School in Bratislava over the war years of 1941-1945. After Prof. MUDr. Kostlivý had left Slovakia, his student, Prof. MUDr. Konstantín Cársky was appointed head of the Clinic of Surgery, as it was officially named. Already during the period of World War II, Prof. Cársky became a remarkable and reknown personality of the School of Medicine of the Slovak University in Bratislava. The first Slovak school of surgery developed under his guidance. On the basis of archival sources and documents, the paper presents statistical data concerning some aspects of the pedagogical activities of the Clinic of Surgery, its staffing, and the complicated process of competence growth, particularly appointments to the highest academic ranks.

Czechoslovakia

[Professor Antonín Spilka in the history of the Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava].

Professor MUDr. Antonín Spilka was one of the outstanding personalities of the Medical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava in the first years of its existence. He was among the first Czech medical doctors who came to Bratislava and was among the last ones to leave it. In 1919 he was substantially involved in the establishment of the Institute of Morbid Anatomy and he was its Head till 1926. In the period from 1927 to 1938 he was Head of the Institute of Medical History, Philosophy, and Hodogetics. Prof. Spilka was first Deputy Dean then he became Dean of the Faculty and over many years he was actively engaged and held various academic positions in different faculty and university institutions. Stricken by a severe disease in 1926, he nevertheless remained active focusing his interest on history of medicine and health care and end medical ethics.

Anatomy