[Health-care in the 1809 "insurrection" of Hungarian noblemen)]

The author, László Bárány PhD (1921-1986), was an eminent researcher of military history. The present article-published and edited by his grandson-contains excerpts from his monograph "The French Wars and Hungary in 1797-1815". Hungary, being a part of the Hapsburg Empire certainly took part in the Napoleonic wars on the Kaiser's side. Hungarian troops fought all over with revolutionary French armies and later with those of Napoleon in various campaigns throughout the wars. But military operations arrived on the Hungarian border only in 1809 when a division of the French Army invaded Hungary and the Hungarian nobility responded the attack by erecting an insurrectionist army of the noblemen which had not been called in for more than a century. The battle took place at Gyor, not very far away from the Austrian borders, and the insurrectionist troops were quickly defeated, though the French army returned soon to Austria. The author concentrates on the health services of the Hungarian army, which produced an unexpectedly effective network. It was, prepared and organised according to the directives of the physician Ferenc Eckstein, professor of the University of Pest. The author based on interesting archival data reconstructs the medical history of this short war-including its financial aspects as well.