Aptekarstwo w polskich kalendarzach farmaceutycznych przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Prolegomena do badań
Pharmacy in Polish Pharmaceutical Calendars around 1900. Introduction to Research

Summary/Abstract: Around 1900, calendars were sometimes the only source of information about the world for people. Pharmaceutical calendars in Polish were published from 1878.Currently, documentation on calendars is modest, although they were very popular publications with a wide range of topics and a high level of editing, even though they have not yet lived up to a precise bibliological definition.Calendars published in Polish for pharmacists, first in Lviv and then in Warsaw, from 1878 until the outbreak of World War I, were rarely mentioned in scientific papers (the last pharmaceutical calendar from this period was published in 1914).The aim of this work is to show the pharmacy at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, based on information contained in calendars in the collection of the Museum of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University CM in Krakow, since these calendars are a valuable and rich source of knowledge about that period.The calendars examined in this paper were published between 1878 and 1914 in Lviv and Warsaw. These were the times of Partitions of Poland. The calendars contained scientific articles, manuscripts, lists of pharmacies and pharmacists running Polish pharmacies, advertisements, tables and lists.The pharmaceutical calendars were an important source of expertise for pharmacists of the time, as access to pharmaceutical textbooks was limited. Pharmaceutical calendars enabled pharmacists to carry out their work in accordance with the law, the advertisements contained in the calendars made it easier to supply pharmacies with necessary products, and the lists of Polish pharmacists and pharmacies operating in different parts of the inexistent country not only enabled contact between them, but also strengthened a sense of patriotism and mobilized them to work tenaciously together for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and the rebirth of Poland.

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