[Gynecological consultations for young females for treatment of sexual organ disorders]. / Konsultacje ginekologiczne u dziewczat w profilaktyce chorób narzadu plciowego.

The authors presented their consultations with young females at the out-patient clinic from 1983-1995 and compared them with their consultations during an earlier period. According to the authors, the frequency and character of the issues consulted changed as a result of a greater need for this type of help in general. The authors stressed the particular role of establishing thorough medical case histories on the gynaecology of the pubescent period. They concluded that effective child and pubescent female gynaecology could, in nearly every case, protect the patient against disorders and complications during in maturity and over the reproductive period.

[Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954) the Wroclaw Years, 1945-1954]. / Lata pracy Ludwika Hirszfelda (1884-1954) we Wroclawiu (1945-1954).

Beginning with an initial overview of his earlier activities as a scholar, this article is a study of the years which Ludwik Hirszfeld spent in Wroclaw and is based on published sources as well as the reminiscences of both his colleagues and of this author. Hirszfeld himself, in his described his life autobiography "History of One Life" until just after the Second World War. The years he spent in Wroclaw organizing the Medical Department, of which he was the first director from 1945-1946 were unusually active ones. Hirszfeld was also at that time founder of the Department of Medical Microbiology and later of the Institute for Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw. He was simultaneously involved in highly successful scientific research particularly in the area of immunopathology during pregnancy. He was a popular lecturer on this subject with a special gift for reaching his audience as well as an active participant in scientific discussions in a variety of foral forums. He had a great personal influence on the first generation of staff and students of the Medical Department in Wroclaw in the years immediately following the end to the Second World War.

[Doctor of medicine Jerzy Dobrzanski (1889-1970), physician, social activist, independence fighter]. / Dr med. Jerzy Dobrzanski (1889-1970), lekarz, spolecznik, niepodleglosciowiec.

Dr. Jerzy Dobrzanski was born in Warsaw in 1889. He attended grade school and graduated from high school there. He began medical studies and graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1914. He served as a surgeon in the Russian Army during World War I. He passed his final medical degree examination in 1921. He specialized in gynecology and obstetrics at Wilno University. From 1923 to 1939, he was head of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Railway Hospital in Wilno. He became actively involved in social issues and the independence cause as a young pupil, for which he was persecuted. During World War II, he was one of the leaders of the Polish underground resistance movement in the Wilno region. He was sentenced to hard labor in the Soviet gulag, where he stayed from 1945-1956. Upon his return to Poland, dr. Jerzy Dobranski lived and worked as a gynecologist for the Polish Railway in Wroclaw. He died in 1970.

[Professor Tadeusz Baranowski (1910-1993)]. / Profesor Tadeusz Baranowski (1910-1993).

Tadeusz Baranowski was born in Lwow on 13 September 1910. He finished his medical studies in 1933 at the Jan Kazimierz University, worked at the Medical Chemistry Institute directed by Jacob Parnas, resided in Wilno from 1935-1937, and defended his doctorate there in 1936. He earned his habilitat degree in 1939 upon his return to Lwow. From 1939-1941 Baranowski worked first as docent and then as professor at the Biochemistry Department of the Government Institute of Medicine in Lwow. From 1942-1944 he was the director of the Medical Chemistry Institute of the Government Medical Studies Program. In 1944, he moved from Lwow to Krakow. In May of 1945, he moved once again from Krakow to Wroclaw, to take the position of director of the group responsible for overseeing the buildings and equipment of the Medical Academy. That same year he became an associate professor and director of the Physiological Chemistry Department. He also held the office of dean of the medical faculty and president of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw. Prof. Baranowski was nominated to a full professorship in 1955. He became an associate member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1954, and in 1969 he was awarded full membership in the Academy. Over the years, he held different positions both within the Medical Academy and in the Academy of Sciences. He received many awards, including several from the Polish government. Professor Tadeusz Baranowski retired in 1980, and died in Wroclaw on 24 March 1993.

[The history of medicine in the scholary work of Professor Boleslawa Popielskiego]. / Historia medycyny w dorobku naukowym prof. dr hab. Boleslawa Popielskiego.

Professor Boleslaw Popielski, a forensic medical expert, was born in Lwów on 3 May 1907. He earned his medical degree at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów. He was an employee of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Lwów and Kraków, and from 1946 he was the director of the Institute in Wroclaw. Prof. Popielski remained professionally active even after retirement. As an expert in his field, he contributed over 270 publications, including articles on medical ethics. His studies on the history of medicine were related to the past of medical ethics and the history of the medical corp in Lwów and post-war Wroclaw. Prof. Propielski is an active member of the Wroclaw chapter of the Polish Society of the History of Medicine and Pharmaceutics. His contributions to the Society as well as his scholarly works are known for their astuteness and for the Professor's talent for capturing his audience's attention and interest.

[Remarks on Leon Popielski's manuscript of his review of January Zubrzycki's qualifying thesis for professorship dating from 1915]. / Uwagi o rekopisie recenzji Leona Popielskiego pracy habilitacyjnej Januarego Zubrzyckiego z 1915r.

A review written by professor Leon Popielski from Lvov of the qualifying thesis for professorship of January Zubrzycki from Cracow is presented. The manuscript has been kept by professor Popielski's family. Zubrzycki finished his medical studies in Cracow in 1909. While writing his qualifying thesis entitled Placental Albumin Derivatives and their Toxic Properties in 1915 he was an assistant of Aleksander Rosner in the department of maternity and gynaecology of Jagiellonian University. In 1931 as a professor he became the head of the clinic and following the Second World War he was a professor at several faculties of medicine in Poland. He was an outstanding gynaecological surgeon, an author of a five volume atlas of gynaecological surgery. Professor Leon Popielski studied in S. Petersburg. He specialized in physiology. Since 1904 he was the head of the Chair of Pharmacologoy and Pharmacognosy at the Universitiy of Lvov. Popielski's intrest in Zubrzycki's work ensued his research on albumin metabolite effect. His appreciation of the work is expressed by the phrase "I read it with satisfaction". The review was written in 1919, belated by the war.

[Laparoscopic verification of hysterosalpingographic image]. / Laparoskopowa weryfikacja obrazów histerosalpingograficznych.

The authors discuss 47 cases in which the HSG examination showed secondary tubular unpatency, then verified by laparoscopy. The patients were divided in three groups. The patients who belonged to the first group had two-sides tubular unpatency recognized by HSG. In 26 of these patients the HSG result was confirmed by laparoscopy, in 3 cases--it was not. The second group were 14 patients with partial tubular unpatency showed by HSG. In 10 of these cases the laparoscopic examination gave results consistent with HSG, in 4 cases--contradictory. The last group was formed by 6 patients with no tubular unpatency recognized through HSG. 4 of these recognitions were confirmed by laparoscopy, while 2 were not. In the opinion of the authors supported by the results the HSG examination may be considered only as a preliminary element of tubular patency examination. In case of planned microsurgery the only qualifying or disqualifying examination is the laparoscopy with introduction of colour contrast.

[Laparoscopic evaluation of reproductive organs in women treated for infertility]. / Laparoskopowa ocena narzadów plciowych u kobiet leczonych z powodu nieplodnosci.

The authors discuss 84 cases of laparoscopic examination of women with primary or secondary infertility. The patients qualified for this examination had undergone at least 26 weeks of conventional treatment with no effect. In 7 cases the reproductive organ was found to be in order, with fallopian tubes fully patent. In 43 cases tubular inpatency was found. The remaining patients suffered from other reproductive organ disorders. Therefore, the laparoscopic examination made detailed recognition of the causes of infertility possible and thus helped to establish the proper treatment. Additionally, in some cases it enabled the immediate removal of the source of infertility.

[Primary dysmenorrhea in teenagers]. / Dysmenorrhoea primaria u pacjentek mlodocianych.

Authors demonstrate 21 cases with primary dysmenorrhoea at girls aged 14-17 years, which were observed between 1989-1992 and present way of treatment. In their opinion administration of nonsteroid, antiphlogistic medicaments and the spasmolytics is the most effective method.