Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (1849-1925), pioneer of polish phthisiatry and laryngology and Nałęczów
Journal Title: Fizjoterapia Polska - Year 2007, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
The professional and scientific actMties of Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (1849-1924), an eminent Varsovian physician, pio-neer of Polish phthisiatry and laryngology is shortly outlined. Description of his university studies is pointed out. His actMties professional and scientific at the tuberculosis sanatorium in Goerbersdorf are also outlined. He was the head of the depart-ment of internal diseases and the laryngological outaptient clinic at the St. Spirit Hospital in Warsaw, he was a good teacher of many later distinguished Polish laryngologists and internists. His main work in three volumes „Clinical Lectures on Respi¬ratory System Diseases” and its repercussions in Poland and abroad is pointed out. His visits to health resort Nałęczów at 1881 - 1885 are reported. The state of this health resort in the beginning of the eighties ofXIX century, the important part of Fortunat Nowicki (1834-1885) in the origin of health resort are described in morę detail. His versatile actMty leaded to bu-ilding of baths, water institution, koumiss institution. The Sokołowski's meetings in Nałęczów with many personages: Bolesław Prus, famous writer, humorist, story teller, Henryk Sienkiewicz, also famous writer, rather solitary, Ignacy Paderewski, com-poser, the professor of consen/atory, Wacław Szymanowski, journalist, staff member of „Kurjer Warszawski” („Warsaw Da-ily”), Franciszek Kostrzewski, painter, drawer, painter of water-colours, caricaturist, jester, are desribed widely. The Sokołow¬ski^ journey to Yienna, his visit at Wilhelm Winternitz's hydropathic institution are also described. The important part of Alfred Marcin Sokołowski in the development of this health resort especially at pulmonology and laryngology, his organizing achie-vements in personnel schooling, establishment of indications on hyropathy and electrotherapy are also reported.
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Andrzej Kierzek, Jadwiga Kuciel-Lewandowska
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