[Internal medicine in Hungary, between 1919 and 1945].

Author gives a comprehensive overview of the development of internal medicine in Hungary in the inter-war period (1919-1945). Based mostly on articles published in contemporary Hungarian medical journals, he analyses the activities of the different specialties, follows, evaluates and summarizes the development of the individual fields of research. After the detailed chronological presentation author concludes that Hungarian internal medicine in the pre-war period matched or sometimes even exceeded the level of the age.