Yearbook of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University. Volume II [1839].

Cracow 1839, In the Stamping Room of Stanislaw Gieszkowski. 13x20.5 cm, pp. (4), 152, 258, (1), half leather binding of period. Good condition (rust spots, ownership stamps, small trace of dampstaining at top edges of last few dozen pages).

In front of the title page, portrait of Andrew Badurski (1740-1789), physician, professor of medicine and scientist, Master of the Royal School.

Volume II contains: Activities of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University in the school year 1838-39. Some news from the history of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University (including a resolution with respect to foreign physicians from 1511, a list of professors of medicine at the Jagiellonian University from the earliest times, the establishment of a separate chair of anatomy, some details when applying for a place in the faculty from the 16th and 17th centuries, a souvenir of the rites for granting degrees in medicine from the beginning of the 17th century). Life of Dr. Jędrzej Badurski. Barometric measurements of the Tatra Mountains, made in 1838, with the inclusion of comparative meteorological observations with respect to Cracow, by L. Zeiszner. News about the American mealworm (chenopodium quinoa) with remarks on other plants belonging to this genus, by F. Sawiczewski. New observations on the subject of anatomy and physiology, by J. E. Purkini. Insights in the subject of practical surgery, by L. Bierkowski. Historical and critical studies of the beginning and growth of forensic medicine, by F. Hechl.