Medical activities in doctors’ notes from the period of the January Uprising Cover Image

Działania medyczne w notatkach lekarzy z okresu powstania styczniowego
Medical activities in doctors’ notes from the period of the January Uprising

Author(s): Maria Joanna Turos
Subject(s): Social history, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: January 1863 uprising; Polikarp Girsztowt; Władysław Stankiewicz; Feliks Sommer; Władysław Jasiński; helping the wounded and the sick;

Summary/Abstract: The work shows one of the less known issues related to the January Uprising, regarding helping insurgents injured in the fighting. These activities were much more difficult, which prompted Polikarp Girsztowt and other members of the Medical Commission to establish the institution of “wandering surgery”. It also presents profiles of doctors and documentation of their work, which in various forms was transmitted even to foreign periodicals - here Austrian ones, which allowed wider circles of European society to become familiar with the problems they encountered.

  • Issue Year: 30/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 65-86
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish