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Władysław Biegański, Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases [1903]
Title: Differential Diagnosis of Internal Medicine Disorders. Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract.
Author: Władysław Biegański (1857–1917) [on the title page: “by Dr. Wł. Biegański”]; section “Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract”: Alfred Sokołowski (1849–1924) [on the title page: “by Dr. A. Sokołowski, chief resident at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Warsaw”]
Publisher: Warsaw, published by the authors, main distribution at the E. Wende & Co. bookstore, printed by the S. Orgelbrand Sons Joint-Stock Company, 1903. Third edition, revised.
Year of publication: 1903.
Format: 25 cm.
Volume: [6], II, 792, VII pp.
Binding: Original half-leather binding, with visible scratches on the spine.
The third, revised edition of Władysław Biegański’s *Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases*. The textbook was first published in 1891, then again in 1896; in the second edition, the author expanded it to include a section titled “Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract,” written by Alfred Sokołowski. This section is also included in the present edition, and Sokołowski’s name—at the time the chief resident at Warsaw’s Holy Spirit Hospital—appears on the title page. The third edition was published by the authors, with typesetting primarily handled by the E. Wende & Co. bookstore in Warsaw, and printed by the S. Orgelbrand Sons Joint-Stock Company. In library catalogs, the work also appears under the entry “Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases”; the title page retains the earlier form “Dyagnostyka.” This edition is listed in the *Polish Bibliography 1901–1939* (vol. 2, entry 14159).
Władysław Biegański was born in 1857 in Grabów on the Prosna River. From 1870 to 1875, he attended the gymnasium in Piotrków, and then studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, graduating in 1880. From 1883 onward, he was based in Częstochowa, where he practiced medicine and was active in community service; he died in 1917 and is buried at the Kule Cemetery in Częstochowa. In addition to *Diagnostics*, he published, among other works, *The Logic of Medicine, or Principles of General Methodology in the Medical Sciences* (1894), *General Issues in the Theory of Medical Sciences* (1897), “Thoughts and Aphorisms on Medical Ethics” (1899), and the two-volume “Lectures on Acute Infectious Diseases” (1900–1901). He belonged to the Polish school of the philosophy of medicine. The author of the section on upper respiratory tract diseases, Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (1849–1924), born in Włodawa, was a phthisiologist and professor at the University of Warsaw, one of the pioneers of modern treatment of respiratory diseases, and, from 1880 until his death, a contributor to the editorial board of *Gazeta Lekarska*. In 1908, he founded the Anti-Tuberculosis Society.
This volume is of interest to historians of medicine, otolaryngologists, and pulmonologists, as well as collectors of Polish medical literature from the period of the Partitions.
A clean piece preserved in very good condition. Original half-leather binding, with visible scratches on the spine.
Catalog ID: 12270-25-A-Z
Title: Differential Diagnosis of Internal Medicine Disorders. Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract.
Author: Władysław Biegański (1857–1917) [on the title page: “by Dr. Wł. Biegański”]; section “Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract”: Alfred Sokołowski (1849–1924) [on the title page: “by Dr. A. Sokołowski, chief resident at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Warsaw”]
Publisher: Warsaw, published by the authors, main distribution at the E. Wende & Co. bookstore, printed by the S. Orgelbrand Sons Joint-Stock Company, 1903. Third edition, revised.
Year of publication: 1903.
Format: 25 cm.
Volume: [6], II, 792, VII pp.
Binding: Original half-leather binding, with visible scratches on the spine.
The third, revised edition of Władysław Biegański’s *Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases*. The textbook was first published in 1891, then again in 1896; in the second edition, the author expanded it to include a section titled “Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract,” written by Alfred Sokołowski. This section is also included in the present edition, and Sokołowski’s name—at the time the chief resident at Warsaw’s Holy Spirit Hospital—appears on the title page. The third edition was published by the authors, with typesetting primarily handled by the E. Wende & Co. bookstore in Warsaw, and printed by the S. Orgelbrand Sons Joint-Stock Company. In library catalogs, the work also appears under the entry “Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases”; the title page retains the earlier form “Dyagnostyka.” This edition is listed in the *Polish Bibliography 1901–1939* (vol. 2, entry 14159).
Władysław Biegański was born in 1857 in Grabów on the Prosna River. From 1870 to 1875, he attended the gymnasium in Piotrków, and then studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, graduating in 1880. From 1883 onward, he was based in Częstochowa, where he practiced medicine and was active in community service; he died in 1917 and is buried at the Kule Cemetery in Częstochowa. In addition to *Diagnostics*, he published, among other works, *The Logic of Medicine, or Principles of General Methodology in the Medical Sciences* (1894), *General Issues in the Theory of Medical Sciences* (1897), “Thoughts and Aphorisms on Medical Ethics” (1899), and the two-volume “Lectures on Acute Infectious Diseases” (1900–1901). He belonged to the Polish school of the philosophy of medicine. The author of the section on upper respiratory tract diseases, Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (1849–1924), born in Włodawa, was a phthisiologist and professor at the University of Warsaw, one of the pioneers of modern treatment of respiratory diseases, and, from 1880 until his death, a contributor to the editorial board of *Gazeta Lekarska*. In 1908, he founded the Anti-Tuberculosis Society.
This volume is of interest to historians of medicine, otolaryngologists, and pulmonologists, as well as collectors of Polish medical literature from the period of the Partitions.
A clean piece preserved in very good condition. Original half-leather binding, with visible scratches on the spine.
Catalog ID: 12270-25-A-Z
