PMID: 11625738Oct 20, 2001Paper

Surgeons, attendants and physicians in the estates belonging to the Radziwills in the Nieswiez line in the 18th century

Medycyna nowozytna : studia nad historia medycyny
K Zuba

Abstract

The Polish Republic entered the 18th century as a country, which exhibited anachronistic organization of social and economic relations in many respects. For surgery this meant preserving the nature of a guild craft, whereas the West European trends moved closer to the area of medicine. The changes in the above state of affairs led to improvement only in the period of the National Education Commission. However, the commenced changes could not cause any significant increase of the level of surgery in the Polish Republic in the 18th century. Although not many facts support the statement that the Radziwills of the 18th century started any activities aiming at increasing the level of surgical care in all the estates, as they focused mainly on their own court, the court surgeons practiced also outside the court. In the 18th century, for the needs of the prince's family a few highly qualified surgeons came from abroad or from the main Polish cities where good surgeons were more available. But the range of duties performed by the Radziwills' surgeons was broader and covered also the activities other than those related to the profession i.e. treatment of wounds, fractures and certain external symptoms of a disease. They frequently enter...Continue Reading

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