RACIBORSKI Adam - Speech on the tangency of medicine with other sciences, fine arts and literature....

RACIBORSKI Adam - Speech on the tangency of medicine with other sciences, fine arts and literature. Paris 1858. in the author's apartment, In print. L. Martinet. 4, p. 32. opr. wsp. kart. with preserved original cover broch.
Wrappers broch. dusty, otherwise good condition. Owner's signature. A work written in gratitude for offering the chair of the medical clinic at the University of Cracow.
A. Raciborski (1809-1871) - Radom-born physician, author of medical works, November insurgent, emigrant. He studied medicine in Warsaw. "In the November Uprising he took part as a battalion doctor of the 4th p. of line infantry. On September 15, 1831 he was awarded the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari. After the fall of the uprising [...] he got to France. Initially he stayed in Besançon, where he participated in the fight against the cholera epidemic, in 1833 he moved to Paris to finish his medical studies [...]. In Paris he made a name for himself as a noted practitioner [...]. He was Frederic Chopin's physician and served as a consultant to the Polish Ladies' Benevolent Society [...]. Raciborski published more than 80 papers, mainly on women's diseases, but also on anatomy, general pathology, venereology, auscultation, pediatrics, hematology, neurology, gastrology and lung diseases" (PSB). The author received a gold medal from the Academy of Sciences in Paris for the work presented here.