{"id":1909,"date":"2019-02-28T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:39:06","slug":"predmet-mesice-unor-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/2019\/02\/predmet-mesice-unor-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Month: February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Badge of a physician\u2019s car, 1930s<\/h2>\n

Illuminated car radiator badge marked the automobiles of medical doctors on duty. The Aesculap Autoclub<\/a> of Czechoslovak physicians, car owners and operators (founded in 1930), introduced it in 1931. The club chose a red cross in a blue field to avoid confusion with the internationally and nationally protected Red Cross symbol. The signs were made by Franti\u0161ek Ka\u0161par\u2019s Avion Company in Olomouc, later Prague. The Autoclub sold them to doctors, members and even non-members, for K\u010d 165. Placed between the front lights of the car when on duty and covered at other times, the emblem allowed the driver to pass through and park in restricted streets in the center of Prague as well as other towns. This permission, similar to those of emergency vehicles, applied in Brno, Bratislava, Moravian Ostrava, Jihlava (Iglau), Marienbad, as well as Uzhorod, Mukacevo or Chust. According to the Prague Street and Traffic Ordinance of September 1, 1931, physician cars could park in the Narodni, Na Prikope, Celetna or 28 October Streets in the old city center. The German-language Verband deutscher kraftfahrender \u00c4rzte in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik<\/em> <\/a>used a similar sign with a blue cross in a white field, acknowledged, e.g., by the cities of Teplice, Most (Br\u00fcx), Cheb (Eger) or Opava. Many cities such as Plze\u0148, Olomouc, Liberec (Reichenberg) or \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem (Aussig) honored both signs of the often sharply competing national clubs.<\/p>\n

At the Congress of the Union of Medical Automobile Clubs (UIACM)<\/a> in Utrecht in May 1934, the representatives of Aesculap Autoclub strove to establish the Czech version of the Czechoslovak sign internationally. The Czechoslovak Red Cross, they claimed, allowed the use of the Red Cross symbol on blue background. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, rejected the proposal and the UIACM Chair suggested the caduceus (winged snake) symbol on a warning triangle<\/a> instead. The official lighted sign of a physician\u2019s car<\/a>, valid in Czechoslovakia since 1936, included a red Aesculap staff on a blue triangle in a white field. The red and blue crosses remained club insignia of the respective associations.<\/p>\n

The automobile sign in the museum collection comes from the estate of dr. V\u00e1clav \u0160a\u0161ek<\/a> (1891-1944), a District Physician in Brand\u00fdsek<\/a> in Central Bohemia since 1920. It was donated by the grandson of dr. \u0160a\u0161ek in 2011.<\/p>\n

NML Medical Museum, 74\/2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Physician’s Car Badge (1931), \u0160koda Auto Archives<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Thanks are due to Jan Tu\u010dek, the family of dr. V\u00e1clav \u0160a\u0161ek, Ond\u0159ej \u0160afa\u0159\u00edk and other colleagues from the Medical Museum and the National Medical Library.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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