[Alfred Marcin Sokołowski and Władyslaw Matlakowski. Contribution to history of spa treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis].
The professional, scientific and didactic careers of Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (1849-1924) and Władysław Matlakowski (1851-1895) are presented at the beginning. Sokołowski was an assistant and afterwards a deputy of the head of hospital department Herman Brehmer in health resort in Goerbersdorf. In 1880 Sokołowski organized the internal diseases ward and rhinolaryngological outpatient clinic at St. Spirit Hospital in Warsaw. Sokołowski published "Clinical lectures of diseases of respiratory tract" (1902-1906) and many scientific papers. He was a pioneer of Polish pulmonology, rhinolaryngology and spa treatment of respiratory tract diseases. He was a well-known social worker. Matlakowski, who was a surgeon of Surgical Clinic of Warsaw Emperor University and an assistant of Julian Kosiński specialized in abdominal surgery and gynaecologic surgery. While suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis he moved to Zakopane, where he became famous as an ethnographer, an author of two books: "Country architecture of the Tatra Highlands" and "Decoration and equipment of Polish people of the Tatra Highlands". He translated Shakespearian "Hamlet" into Polish. He was also a well-known philosopher and an ornithologist. The meeting of Sokołowski and Matlakowski in Goerbersdorf, and also their further acquaintance and friendship are described widely by the author. Their work at "Gazeta Lekarska" ("Medical Magazine's") editorial office, which was well-known in three sectors of partitioned Poland is presented with more details by the author. Finally the epitome of spa treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis is presented. Sokołowski and Matlakowski were propagators of spa treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis; Sokołowski made Goerbersdorf famous, Matlakowski did the same for Zakopane.
Zakład Klinicznych Podstaw Fizjoterapii Wydziału Zdrowia Publicznego Akademii Medycznej im. Powstańców Slaskich we Wrocławiu, Wrocław.
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Kierzek
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Kuciel-Lewandowska
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