LETTER FROM DEBRECEN, HUNGARY.

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To the Editor: In the last week of 1963, during a trip to Hungary, Prof Louis Szodoray, Chairman of the Dermatologic Clinics of the University of Debrecen, extended a cordial invitation that I spend a day in Debrecen, to visit his department and give a lecture. For this occasion he rescheduled the regular monthly meeting of the dermatologists in the Debrecen area, to coincide with my visit; these meetings are analogous to those of our local societies and are held to present interesting or unusual cases. In addition, semiannual sessions give an opportunity to guest lecturers to discuss their work. Although such a cursory visit, supplemented by brief encounters with a few leading dermatologists in Budapest, does not qualify me to write authoritatively of dermatologic activities in Hungary, even a necessarily superficial account may be warranted for a number of reasons. In the first place, my host, Dr. Szodoray, is