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Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 30 (2024) Supplement I, 2024, pp. 307 - 321
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.24.021.20014Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 68, Issue 4, 2023, pp. 275 - 285
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.23.054.18796Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 30 (2024) Issue 2, 2024, pp. 165 - 172
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.24.055.20885Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 29 (2023) Issue 1, 2023, pp. 323 - 334
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.23.016.18457In the 19th century, the medicine cabinets at the manors of Polish nobility became a legitimate presence in the Polish provinces: defi ned in encyclopaedias and dictionaries and included in the laws on pharmacies. Their caretakers (“panny apteczkowe”) obtained their knowledge from home silva rerum, herbal books or their copies. The women taking care of the household medicine cabinets grew herbs themselves or bought them from rural herbalists with whom they exchanged information about the healing effect.
It remains an open question whether the knowledge of medicinal plants considered folk belongs to our Slavic tradition or to the Greco-Latin civilisation.
Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 68, Issue 3, 2023, pp. 219 - 225
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.23.035.18415In 2022, the History of Natural and Medical Sciences Research Unit comprised nine employees who engaged in various collaborative activities. They embarked on a series of projects, including the creation of a virtual museum called ‘The Lost Collection: Cabinet of Natural History of Duchess Anna Jabłonowska (1728–1800) in Podlasie’, organizing the International Conference on Medicinal Plants in Science and Culture (supported by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science – Perfect Science), conducting monthly seminars on the History of Natural and Medical Sciences, and holding doctoral seminars within the series ‘Polish Medical Press and Official Archives as Historical Sources in Research on Health and Disease in the 19th and 20th Centuries’. Individually, team members had significant achievements, which have been documented in numerous publications. Additionally, their valuable contribution extended to active involvement in the editorial offices of the Institute’s journals published by the Institute.
Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 69, Issue 1, 2024, pp. 109 - 142
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.004.19536Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 30 (2024) Issue 1, 2024, pp. 195 - 200
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.24.007.19695Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 67, Issue 4, 2022, pp. 211 - 220
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.22.045.16976Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 27 (2021) Issue 1, 2021, pp. 151 - 154
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.21.010.14223Iwona Arabas
Modern medicine, Volume 28 (2022) Issue 1, 2022, pp. 181 - 182
https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.22.006.16214Iwona Arabas
ORGANON, Volume 52, 2020, pp. 31 - 46
https://doi.org/10.4467/00786500.ORG.20.002.12928Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 137 - 160
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.21.005.13389One of the richest natural history collections in Europe at the end of the 18th century was the Cabinet of Natural History of Duchess Anna Jabłonowska née Sapieha (1728–1800) in Siemiatycze. In 1802, the collection was purchased by Tsar Alexander I and handed over to the University in Moscow (where it burned down in 1812). It was only possible to recreate the richness of the collection and the way it was taken over after the sales documents had been found in 2008 in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. However, some documents were illegible, and it was only in 2020 that the entire documentation was read. It revealed a completely different image of the collection than expected, as in one part the collection refers to cabinets of curiosities. The article is the first publication in Polish on Anna Jabłonowska’s “art cabinet”, with translations of the lists of exhibits by Count Stanisław Sołtyk (from French) and by V.M. Severgin and A.F. Sevastyanov (from Russian).
Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 67, Issue 3, 2022, pp. 149 - 155
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.22.028.16331In 2021, the members of the History of Natural and Medical Sciences Research Unit pursued a variety of topics, but most research activities were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the history of museology of nature and technology. Our activities were fostered by international cooperation which facilitated access to foreign archives. The first step to joint action is creating the virtual cabinet within a proposed digital project titled The Lost Collection: The Cabinet of Natural History of Duchess Anna Jabłonowska in Podlasie (1728–1800).
Iwona Arabas
Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 65, Issue 2, 2020, pp. 131 - 138
https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.20.016.11997