Lajos Markusovszky was not only founder of Orvosi Hetilap, the first significant professional medical journal in Hungarian and one of the most excellent Hungarian health organisator in the nineteenth century but also artist of the word: he regarded word as the most important tool in the physician's hands. Inspired by his example, the auther reviews the present state of the Hungarian medical language and the impact of the word in disclosing prognosis and declaring willingness to provide medical and human help up to the very end. He thinks that word still remains the physician's most important weapon in fighting against suffering and death.
 
 

              The author remembers the director surgeon of the Vas County Hospital who died 40 years ago. Petõ came to Szombathely during the First World War as army-doctor. After the War he contributed - unsparing in his material and spiritual efforts - to the building of the Vas County and Szombathely City's new public hospital and he became the first director of it. Due to his Jewish origins the Hungarian Nazis have chased him and he was forced to refuge. In 1952 - due to political reasons - he was placed to Sárvár where he has worked six years. Petõ roved a typical 20th-century-career, characteristic to Hungarians - the author summarises the lessons of this. He has not been rehabilitated in his life. The justice of the history reached him 10 years after the system-changeover. The study of the author serves this purpose as well. The study presents him as an example of hospital-founder, school-creator, good surgeon, exceptional leader and high-minded man for the posterity.
 
 

              On the 40th anniversary of his death, the author recalls his personal reminiscences about the personality, working style and several proofs of the organising ability of Ernõ Petõ as well as some phases of his hospitaldirectorship. He relates in detail about the period when Ernõ Petõ, the founder of the hospital, returning from the illegality, reorganised the anarchical hospital. He organised new departments with exceptional experts and created the right conditions for the spiritual and scientific recovery, which quickly led to the winning of the title of the first Hungarian didactical hospital.
 
 

              Marshal Marmont (1774-1851) reached Szombathely during the Hungarian journey of the Prince of Raguza. He mentions the city and teh surroundings in his book about the Hungarian trip. The present study remembers the life and the possible motivations of the Hungarian journey of the great French soldier and statesman. The popular travel book - despite of its relatively coolish welcome in Hungary - contributed to familiarise Europe more widely with Szombathely.
 
 

              After the fall of the War of Independence, the continuation of the former bathing life proved to be a vain hope at Sóskút, near Németújvár (today: Güssing, Austria). Due to the deficit-producing business, the owners of the spa were changing rapidly and at the end of the 19th century its operation became completely impossible. At the beginning of the 1900es, the county's press promoted only the Vita and Paula mineral waters bottled at Sóskút. For the utilisation of the healing water of the springs, in 1917 the VITA Mineral Waters Inc. was founded. After the Trianon Treaty, the diversified Hungarian history of the Sóskút was terminated and a new era began - within other state's borders.
 
 

              The Trianon Treaty that dismembered Hungary brought a lot of misery and pain for the Hungarian people. The irredentism claiming the revision has been consciously taught in the schools during the Horthy-period. On the areas of Vas County that have been broken down and given to Austria, an opposition has been formed out. József Kuntár, the parish-pries who propagated the loyalty to the Hungarian motherland was arrested by the Austrian gendarmes and was thrown into prison. His congregation, however, has unanimously and firmly held brief for him, they have rescued  him and with their commitment they achieved the termination of the foreign occupation. His contemporaries have acknowledged the sacrifice of József Kuntár; his former congregation and their descendants steadily keep his memory.
 
 

              The Szombathely city hall has been bombed in 1945 but the foundation documents remained intact and have been taken into inventory in 1947. Today, these documents are kept at the Smidt Museum. With the help of the documents the author evokes some significant episodes of the building's history.
 
 

              Paul apostle, on his way to Rome was shipwrecked at the lsle of "Melité" (the Acts of the Apostles 28,1). The island has been identified as Malta. H. Warnecke, in his book published in 1987 states that the shipwreck occurred at the island of Kefallinia, in the Livadi-Bay along the Western borders of Greece. He lists meteorological, archaeological and other proofs. The author of this present paper visited Kefallinia and Malta and relates about the written documents according to which Warnecke's theory is unsustainable. The shipwreck happened at the Malta island, in the St. Paul-Bay or in the Mellieha-Bay.
 
 

              At the beginning of the 60es two scientific studies were published that completely changed the approach of their own science. The first: the book of Thomas Kuhn published in 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the other: Paul R. Erlich and Peter H. Raven, Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution. With the help of the thought of Kuhn - according to which the evolution of the science is divided into phases separated by scientific revolutions - we examine the fate and effect of the coevolution theory created by the American author pair on the field of evolution ecology. We propound that the theory of the coevolution - crystallised into a paradigm - determined for a long period the development of the science studying the relation between the herbivorous insects and their nutritive plants. Then, we examine how the newer theory, the sequential or tracking evolution derived from the coevolution theory's crisis and how it reformed the approach of this science.
 
 

              The life-work of József Magyar - born in Vas County - consists of more than 120, partly short, partly long - documentaries and 5 feature pictures that are a weepy-merry - but still sad - entertaining collection of the contradictions of a faithless system. It is characteristic to its popularity that his picture "Our School" wass held on programmes for 25 weeks in the Zrínyi movie at Budapest. Besides the characterisation of his lifework, here can be found the whole list of his pictures and his small biography.