[Past and present of the Hungarian traumatology (author's transl)].

Author presents a consise picture about the history of the Hungarian traumatology. Remembering great Hungarian surgeons who recognised the significance of accident surgery and with their works contributed to the progress in traumatology, he delineates the development of the Hungarian trauma management. The second part of this paper is dealing with the present situation of the Hungarian accident surgery and outlines tasks to be realized for further development of the well advancing Hungarian traumatology.