Professors of internal diseases at Polish universities in 1918–1939

Abstract

The article outlines the achievements of Polish professors who specialized in the treatment of internal diseases. The analysis concerns the scientists who held professorial chairs between 1918 and 1939. The findings were presented in the context of university medical departments. In Poland, in the interwar period, a total of 13 professors held chairs of internal medicine:

The foundation of the Polish Cardiac Society and the Polish Heart Journal

“…; and Jan Henryk Lubieniecki, chair at Poznań University (1923)(1924)(1925)(1926)(1927)(1928)(1929)(1930)(1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938)(1939)). [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Apart from professors of internal medicine, scholars who specialized in other fields, particularly those who held chairs of surgery at faculties of medicine, also took interest in cardiology. Cardiac issues were also dealt with by Professor Marian Franke, chair of General and Experimental Pathology at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv in the years 1921 to 1939; Włodzimierz Koskowski, chair of Experimental Pharmacology at the same university in the years 1925 to 1939; and Marian Eiger, chair of Physiology at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius in the years 1922 to 1938.…”