A hévízi Zrínyi Miklós magyar királyi honvédtiszti gyógyház, 1933–1944

Gábor Hausner; József Padányi; Attila Süli

doi:10.17047/HADTUD.2020.30.1.114

Gábor Hausner National University of Public Service, Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4837-5149
József Padányi National University of Public Service, Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6665-8444
Attila Süli Ministry of Defence Military History Institute and Museum https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1628-2976

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17047/HADTUD.2020.30.1.114

Keywords: Hévíz, military healthcare, treatment protocol, treatment of rheumatic disases

Abstract

Musculoskeletal disorders severely affected the Royal Hungarian Army personnel too, between the two world wars. Opened in 1933 and operating until September 1944, the Royal Hungarian Army Officers’ Zrínyi Miklós Health Resort provided healing for a total of about 4-5 thousand retired and active-duty military officers and their wives, as well as war widows suffering from joint ailments. The character of the health resort changed in the last years of its existence, and the rehabilitation of the injured and wounded persons of the ongoing World War came to the fore. The authors reconstruct the patient care and the range of patients in the institution with the help of archival sources, press reports and the surviving guestbook of the resort. The documents confirm that some protocols and healing principles developed at that time are still in force today in the successor institution, the Hévíz Locomotor Rehabilitation Institute of the Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Center.

The Royal Hungarian Army Officers’ Zrínyi Miklós Health Resort in Hévíz, 1933–1944

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