[The Czech Surgical Society between the two world wars].

The article is a continuation of the "Beginnings of the Czech Society of Surgeons" and based on available reports in the Czech Medical Journal and the Surgical Review and present an account on the development of the Society in 1920-1939. The author mentions the splitting of the Czechoslovak Surgical and Gynaecological Society first into a Surgical and Gynaecological Section of the Czechoslovak Surgical and Gynaecological Society from 1930, and subsequently the Czechoslovak Society of Surgeons from 1936 which, however, did not last very long in view of the events which afflicted our country in 1938. Therefore it was changed, consistent with changes of the statute into the Czech Society of Surgeons. The author describes also the foundation of the journal Rozhledy v chirurgii (Surgical Review) in 1937-1938 replacing the former Rozhledy v chirurgii a gynaekologii founded in 1921.