[100 years of the University Hospital in Halle. The development of the Halle University Hospitals in the first decade of their existence].

This year the clinics of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg can look back on an existence of 100 years. Their establishment took place in a phase in which the natural-scientific principle and on this basis the hospital medicine began to make their way. Improved techniques and methods rendered a concentrated performance of medical care indispensary henceforth. In the phase of their foundation the new clinics which were established on the basis of French payments of reparations are reckoned the best institutions among the union of the Prussian universities. They get a high appreciation above all by the appointment of good scientists to professorships particularly of the theoretical fields. But already after few decades increasing insufficiencies of the clinical department show the beginning of a stagnation which should set in after the turn of the century and caused the loss of the first place the clinics held up to that time.