Emil Wyrobek, Alcohol, Prostitution, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Tuberculosis and Suicide [1910]

Size: 23 cm.

Volume: p. 143, [2] (153 pages total).

Binding: half-cloth with a publisher’s brochure insert glued to the cover.

Emil Wyrobek’s study, one of the first in Poland to combine medical statistics with an analysis of social problems. The author examines the links between alcoholism and prostitution and venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and suicides among youth and workers, and proposes preventive and educational measures. The book is part of the hygiene and temperance movement, which was strong in Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century.

The frontispiece and title pages bear the seal of the Mining School in Dąbrowa (today Doubrava in the Czech Republic). On the first page is a handwritten note stating that it was purchased on April 9, 1912, for 3 crowns and 50 halers.

The canvas is worn, the corners are rounded, and the paper is slightly yellowed. The book is complete and intact.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.