Problemy lecznictwa w Turcji i Persji w świetle korespondencji emigranta Władysława Jabłonowskiego

• Authors: Jan Wnęk

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The problems of health care in Turkey and Persia in the correspondence of the emigrant Władysław Jabłonowski

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article is devoted to the letters written by doctor Władysław Jabłonowski from Turkey and Persia to Polish medical journals. This Polish doctor, who spent many years in exile following the January Uprising, carried out painstaking work to reach various areas of Turkey, contributing to the halting of the spread of cholera and plague epidemics. His letters sent to Polish periodicals (e.g. Przegląd Lekarski, Medycyna) dealt primarily with healthcare in Turkey and Persia (“An epidemiology of the East”, “Sanitary sketches from Persia”, “The plague and cholera in the East”, “Health care in the Turkish army”), and not only made for an interesting reading about countries that were exotic to many, but also constituted a source of information about some diseases rarely encountered in Poland and about specific conditionsin which health services functioned. For modern historians of medicine, too, Jabłonowski’s articles, written in the second half of the 19th century, can provide a solid source base for writing about the medical art in the past. Translated by Anna Kijak

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Wrocławskie Studia Wschodnie
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 77 - 88

Contributors

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Jan Wnęk

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