Kosowska lecznica Apolinarego Tarnawskiego w doniesieniach polskojęzycznych czasopism uzdrowiskowych (XIX/XX w.)
The Kosiv Institute of Apolinary Tarnawski in the Reports of the Polish-Language Spa Magazines (19th–20th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the Polish hygienist Apolinary Tarnawski (1851–1943) and the image of the institute of natural medicine he ran at Kosiv (Polish: Kosów) in Pokuttya (1893–1914) (now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine), as presented in the Polish-language spa magazines at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth centuries, including Nasze Zdroje, Przegląd Zdrojowy, Przegląd Zdrojowo-Kąpielowy, Przegląd Zdrojowy i Turystyczny, Przegląd Zdrojowo-Kąpielowy i Turystyczny, Przewodnik Kąpielowy, Zdrój Ciechociński, and Kurier Ciechociński. The institute, run by Tarnawski between 1893 and 1914, employed natural and innovative treatment methods. The most important natural therapeutic measure was fresh air. Hence the recommendations for walks, gymnastics, and sleeping with open windows. He appreciated the importance of silence both in the medical facility and in everyday life, the treatment with the movement (physical work in the company’s gardens), the air and the sun baths, as well as a vegetarian and low-calorie diet.

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