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 profi les 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.
This text raises the problem of the beginning of procedures performed in the early nineteenth century on the pericardial sac, and especially punctures in the event of fl uid buildup. Thus, he presents the contribution of Dominique Jean Larrey to the foundations for later cardiac surgery.
The last days of the Polish-Russian war of 1831 are the storming of Warsaw. This fact is generally perceived through the prism of military operations, but no less important was the operation of the military health service headed by Karol Kaczkowski acting as the chief staff doctor. Risking his own life, he rushed to help soldiers injured in combat, along with his subordinate medics, including foreigners. After the capitulation of the capital, the Russians who entered the city treated the wounded and sick with all brutality. Traces have survived, among others in the little-known in Poland diary of the Swedish physician Sven Jonas Stille.
At the turn of 1806/07, French troops fought a series of battles and skirmishes with the Russian army in northern Mazovia. Wounded and sick soldiers were taken to fi eld hospitals, often organized just outside the area of military operations. Determining the locations of such institutions allows for the verifi cation of the burial sites and, at the same time, for the commemoration of both the soldiers who died there and the staff employed.
This is the presentation of the first observations regarding the combination of skull injuries and their consequences in the intellectual-cognitive sphere that the outstanding French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey made in the first thirty years of the XIX century.
This text is an attempt to systematize data and answer the question what happened in Jaffa during the evacuation of wounded and sick from the city during the retreat of Napoleonic troops in May 1799, and to find people who were personally responsible for administering poison to the most severely ill.
Reconstructive surgery has a long way to go. In Europe, Dominique Jean Larrey surgeon, humanist and innovator wrote a very interesting card in this area. In addition to practical actions often taken on the battlefields of the Napoleonic era, he devoted a signifiant part of his scientific achievements to the problems of maxillofacial surgery, also educating his students in this direction. And here is a handful of messages from over two hundred years ago.
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign not only led to the discovery of the monuments of the pharaonic state, but also opened a new chapter in medical science. Encounter with many epidemic and endemic diseases has led to rationalization of views on the spread of infections. This was the case, among others, in the case of the plague, epidemics of which often broke out in the Middle East, practically at the gates of Europe. Creating a model of sanitary procedures contributed to reducing the risk.
The appearance of cholera in Poland was a signifi cant epidemiological problem. One of the fi rst works devoted to the etiology, the search for methods of therapy as well as the necessary hygienic and sanitary measures to prevent the spread of this disease was written in 1830 by Michał Kaczkowski. His work, despite the passage of years, still deserves attention.
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