XIX-wieczne kompendium wiedzy o chorobach zakaźnych Patologia i terapia szczegółowa – pierwszy podręcznik w polskim tłumaczeniu

Abstract

A 19th-Century Compendium on Infectious Diseases: Patologia i terapia szczegółowa (‘Pathology and Detailed Therapy’) – The First Textbook in Polish Translation The development of medical sciences in the 19th c. forced contemporary medical doctors to constantly improve their knowledge. The easiest way was to acquaint oneself with current problems presented in medical periodicals and book publications. Most of them were addressed to researchers. A deficit of such literature was observed in the further education for physicians practising in the provincial areas. In the partitioned areas, doctors relied on books written in German or French. This article presents the first Polish translation of the three-volume work titled Patologia i terapia szczegółowa (‘Pathology and Detailed Therapy’) and discusses the thematic focus of this publication. The three-volume edition initiated the process of developing Polish contributions in this field, heralded by the first entirely Polish textbook published in 1900 by Władysław Biegański titled Wykład o chorobach zaraźliwych, ostrych (‘Lecture on contagious, acute diseases’).