TANISLAW KOSMINSKI: A DICTIONARY OF POLISH PHYSICIANS INCLUDING, IN ADDITION TO SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF POLISH PHYSICIANS AND FOREIGNERS SETTLED IN POLAND, A DETAILED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLISH MEDICINE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES UNTIL 1885. [1888]

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“Dictionary of Polish Physicians” by Stanislaw Kosminski is a monumental biobibliographical work, which is the foundation of Polish medical historiography. Published in 1888 by Gebethner and Wolff in Warsaw, the compendium collects biographies of Polish physicians and foreigners settled on Polish soil, accompanied by a detailed medical bibliography from the earliest times until 1885.

Kosminski, a physician and medical historian, has created a work of invaluable source value. The dictionary contains not only biographies of renowned university professors, but also profiles of rural physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and balneologists, restoring the memory of often forgotten figures of Polish medicine. The extensive bibliography is an invaluable compilation of Polish medical literature of the 19th century.

The work remains to this day a basic reference for historians of medicine, researchers of the history of Polish science and genealogists seeking information on ancestors connected with the medical profession. The publication was published by the renowned Gebethner and Wolff publishing house, which guaranteed a high editorial level.