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DEPARTMENT AND CLINIC OF SURGERY AND OPTHALMOLOGYAddress: 1078 Budapest, István u. 2. Short history of the departmentDepartment of Veterinary Medicine was funded in 1786 as part of the University of Pest established by King Josef II, which institution already dealt actively with the education of surgery. Students for human medicine of the University compulsorily studied surgical aethiology and operative surgery accompanied by subject of veterinary medicine performed by S. Tolnay on the basis of surgical textbook edited by Prof. Wolstein from Vienna (1785). At that time veterinary surgery remained at "second level" behind the human medicine. Remarkable progress in the education of veterinary surgery was achieved under V. Zlamal (1803-1886) recognising the impotance of surgery as an independent subject completing it with other related disciplines. The first teacher of surgery was F. Varga, a medical doctor, who was an assistant of Prof. Balassa, the founder of hungarian operative surgery. In 1870 the "Special Surgical and Operative Department" was established and moved into present-day buildings in Rottenbiller street. B. Plósz, at the time of his heading, completely recontructed and reorganised the department, indroduced conditions of surgical asepsis and operative surgery. He was outstanding in orthopaedics and abdominal surgery of the horse. Following head of the department, M. Berrár (1884-1929) was an internationally accepted expert of veterinary surgery and ophthalmology. Radiological unit was established by E.Gy. Guoth after 1929. Gy. Kómár, then A.B. Kovács took part in the foundation of hoof and abdominal surgery of the horse and cattle. L. Tamás headed the department between 1981 and 1989 contributing to the progress of equine surgery followed by J. Tóth, the major renewer and reconstructor of the department developing the institution onto a reasonable European level both in large and small animal surgery with regard to both instrumentation and special work.
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