Yearbook of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University. Volume III [1840] [Szczawnica].

Cracow 1840, In the Stamping Room of Stanislaw Gieszkowski. 13.5x20.5 cm, pp. (4), 455, (1), six black and white engravings on separate pages, half leather binding of period. Good condition (traces of dampstaining in the corners of several dozen pages, rust spots, ownership stamps).

Volume III contains: Activities of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University in the school year 1839-40. Answers to the questions of JX. Kollataj regarding the state of the Faculty of Medicine. Presentation relative to the device of the Faculty of Medicine from the year 1776. Wojciech Nowopolski in terms of the identity of this name theologian and doctor. Geological description of Szczawnica and Szlachtowa (with three engravings, two of which show the structure of the Carpathian sandstone layers on the Dunajec River at the Tchoń Mountain below Krościenko, one trachyte erecting marl shale burnt in the Palkow Stream near Szlachtowa), by L. Zeiszner. News about a hitherto undescribed species of roach (with two engravings), by F. Sawiczewski. On the medicinal use of sea water (with a table of Baltic Sea water), by Frederick Skobel. On the need for early extraction of the placenta, both in the course of normal labor, as well as in the case of deviations, as well as medical treatment in this regard, by J. Kwasniewski. A picture of the progress of medical science in the last 3 years, as far as Polish writings have contributed to it: theoretical sciences, anatomy and physiology, pathological anatomy and physiology, pharmacology and toxicology, physiography of medicine and pharmacy, medical practice, history of medical science.