[Emanuel Emeryk Machek (1852-1930)--founder of department of ophthalmology at the University of Lviv].
In the 19th century, the process of social and political changes in the Polish society was considerably affected by the development of sciences, especially medicine. Many doctors were involved in voluntary health services and public education of the poorest social classes and in supporting government authorities which promoted health education and proper sanitation among the public. The article presents the intellectual biography of dr Emanuel Emeryk Machek, who was one of the most prominent doctors of that time, a competent clinician who trained many doctors and was engaged in voluntary work for the public. His medical career is connected with the history of Lviv University--Dr Emanuel Emeryk Machek was the founder of the Ophtalmic Hospital at the Medical Department of Lviv University. One of the students of dr Emanuel Emeryk Machek was dr Boleslaw Dlugoszowski, who is mostly remembered not as a doctor but as a great patriot, brave soldier fighting in the cavalry regiment, a friend and aide-de-camp of Marshall J6zef Pilsudski, a diplomat assigned by President Ignacy Moscicki to become his successor, and the President of Poland in October 1939. history of medicine, history of ophthalmology, Lviv University, history of Polish science under partitions, Boleslaw Wieniawa Dlugoszowski, Emanuel Emeryk Machek.
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