BIEGAŃSKI Jan - Uprawa roślin lekarskich [1918].

Cultivation of medicinal plants supplemented edition Jan Biegański

A study presenting the most important medicinal plants. Black and white illustrations in the text. The author also draws attention to the untapped potential of Polish herbalism: "We, instead of devoting ourselves to the economic work of uplifting our native country, look at everything with comical indifference, run away from the land, increase the urban proletariat, emigrate to America by the hundreds of thousands, unable to understand that in the land-feeder, soaked in the blood of our ancestors and fertilized with their ashes, lie inexhaustible riches for us and the next generations, but these riches must be willing and able to draw" (after the introduction)

Jan Bieganski (1863 - 1939) - Polish apothecary. Author of numerous works on herbal medicine and herb cultivation. Considered a pioneer of Polish herbalism

Year of publication: Warsaw [1918], Druk. Gazeta Rolnicza

s. [2], 84.

Format: 20 x 14 cm

Binding: publisher's booklet

Condition: complete, cover with the last page loose, no underlining or signatures in the text, [PROVENANCE: on the title page a period signature " Rev. Maryan Kubowicz "*] minor tears at the staples at the first page, cover with creases at the edges and rust discoloration, loss of the spine

*Probably Rev. Marian Kubowicz (1885-1963) - Polish priest, ordained in Wloclawek in 1909. On July 12, 1917, he took the position of parish priest in Blachownia, where he was active in the community: he organized and participated in many fund-raisers, worked for the poorest and on behalf of many organizations. Fr. Kubowicz's greatest work was the construction of a brick church in Blachownia.(https://historia.blachownia.com/2018/05/19/55-lat-temu-zmarl-ks-marian-kubowicz/)