Author: KUJAWSKA Ewa
Title: Jerzy Chrystian Arnold (1747-1827). Life and activity.
- Place of issue: Leszno
- Year of publication: 2022
- Publisher: Stanisław Grochowiak Municipal Public Library in Leszno
- Number of pages: 314
- Illustrations, maps: 45 in the text
- Size: 25 cm
- Binding: hard cloth with gilt lettering on the front and spine, wrapper, bookmark in the form of a ribbon
- Condition: very good
- ISBN: 9788361681397
Description:
An edition of 100 copies.
Jerzy Chrystian Arnold of coat of arms (1747-1827), physician, surgeon, historian of science.
He received his education in Leszno and Gdansk. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1768 obtaining the title of Dr. med.
He practiced medicine in Poznań and settled in Warsaw in 1777, where he received an indigene. In 1807-1817 he became a member of the Medical Council of the Duchy of Warsaw.
He was the author of the first bibliography of natural medicine, including a list of herbaria and other works containing descriptions of the fauna and flora of the Polish lands, preceded by a compilation of the most important foreign literature in this field from ancient times to the Middle Ages. It is the first Polish bibliography of natural medicine. (source: wikipedia)
