A magyar tudományos közlések nyelvének alakulása orvosi folyóiratainkban – Markusovszky Lajos
Hungarian language medical journals were published only since the 19th century. The first one among them was the Medical Magazine founded and edited by Pál Bugát and Ferenc Schedel Toldy in 1831. Unfortunately, it ceased to exist after the freedom fight 1848-49. One decade after the bloody defeating of the freedom fight founded Lajos Markusovszky the Orvosi Hetilap 1857 that was issued without a break to our days. This is the world’s seventh oldest medical journal a proud part of the Hungarian Heritage as well. Specialists published first in the supplements of the journal and the Gyógyászat founded by Imre Poór separated first from the original paper. At the end of the century, there were published already specific journals of many specialities. These journals mirrored exactly the development of Hungarian medical language. The Orvosi Tár revealed obviously all difficulties of creating new medical terms. However, the Orvosi Hetilap used already exact Hungarian definitions. It is almost unbelievable how precisely the authors wrote their articles. Only since the second half of the 20th century were emerging terms of foreign origin, initially Greco-Latin and later on the rapidly spreading English.