Bożena Urbanek

• Danuta Ciesielska, Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowej interdyscyplinarnej konferencji w stulecie habilitacji Emmy Noether na Uniwersytecie w Getyndze. „NoetherKonferenz 2019”, Berlin, 3–5 czerwca 2019 r.
• Bożena Urbanek, Podróż naukowa do Istambułu (Turcja) i udział w konferencji pt. „Woda a zdrowie w perspektywie historyczno-kulturowej” (Refleksje)
• Agnieszka Fabiańska, II Międzynarodowa Konferencja Proweniencyjna „Kolekcje prywatne w zbiorach książki dawnej”, Wrocław, 18–19 czerwca 2019
• Piotr Köhler, Historia botaniki podczas 58. Zjazdu Polskiego Towarzystwa Botanicznego w Krakowie (1–7 lipca 2019 r.)
• Danuta Ciesielska, Sprawozdanie z „Jubileuszowego Zjazdu Matematyków Polskich w stulecie PTM”. Kraków, 3–7 września 2019 r.
• Łukasz Cholewiński, Międzynarodowa konferencja „Twierdze osiemnastowiecznej Europy. Spotkanie III”, Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, 13–14 września 2019 r.
• Barbara Bienias, Rozstrzygnięcie siódmej edycji Nagrody im. Jana Jędrzejewicza

Charity activities in Vilnius in the times of rebirth of the Polish self-government (1919–1927)

The article explores one of the diffi cult topics from the turbulent time of the birth of the II Polish Republic – migrations of refugees who were running away from various confl icts that engulfed the region in the beginning of 1920s. The author sets out to assess the sanitary and social conditions in the city until the year 1927, based on documentation from the Lithuanian State Modern Archive (Lietvas centrinis valstybes archywas).

Influenza in Polish textbooks on infectious diseases from the second half of 19th century and the interwar period

Influenza, as a disease, is still relatively unknown to the general public, despite the fact that it has quite an extensive pedigree, both in terms of etymology – the history of the term itself – as well as the period when it first became recognizable as a specific type of ailment. The following analysis attempts to uncover the regularities connected with learning about this disease, which has been known to plague mankind since ancient times. Another interesting aspect – besides reaching the reason for the phrasing used – is the question of the naming convention, which developed in Europe, one could say, along with the disease itself, which in turn was often known to take the form of an epidemic or even escalating to a pandemic. This analysis is based on the first Polish medical textbooks describing infectious diseases, which started being published in the Congress Kingdom of Poland in 1870s. Moreover, it should be added that initially those books were published on the basis of foreign literature and were passed on to the Polish public through translations. However, from the beginning of the 20th century, textbooks by native authors, the first national specialists in this field, started being written. The last position used for the purposes of the above analysis is a publication entitled doctors), edited by Leon Karwacki and Feliks Malinowski, published in Warsaw in 3 volumes, two years before the outbreak of the Second World War, in the year 1937.

Jan Bohdan Gliński, Słownik biograficzny lekarzy i farmaceutów  ofiar drugiej wojny światowej, t. 6, Wydawnictwo Dwa Światy, Warszawa 2018, ss. 233 (rec. Bożena Urbanek)

Maria J. Turos, Dominique Jean Larrey (1766–1842) chirurg  wielkiej armii, Wydawnictwo Napoleon V, Oświęcim 2017, ss. 295 (rec. Bożena Urbanek)

Oldest, municipal hospitals in Polish Vilnius until 1939

Hospital care in Vilnius has a long tradition, going back more than 300 years. Some people claim that one of the fi rst care and treatment facilities in Central and Eastern Europe was located in Vilnius. That institution was the local St. Jacob’s hospital, which after more than 90 years of operation, i.e. in 1799, received that name. The same hospital continued operation until the year 2005, when a decision was made to fi nally close it down. By mid 19th century, due to increasing demands in hospital care, as well as increased social needs, many other similar institutions were soon established, among them the “Sawicz” hospital and the Jewish hospital, which continued to operate and grow into the times of the Second Polish Republic. Władysław Zahorski wrote about the origins of the fi rst hospitals in Vilnius already in the interwar period, however his focus was on the early days of local treatment facilities. The article aims to describe the history of the oldest municipal hospitals in Polish Vilnius in the interwar period, up until the year 1939. The foundation of the article is established by using historic archives of the City Hall that are currently located in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybes Archyvas) and in the Special Collection of the General Medical Library, together with old calendars, periodicals, and studies on the subject.