Title:

Medicine from the Old Polish calendar

Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

Creator:

Piskała, Magdalena

Institutional creator:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2020

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Location:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Subject and Keywords:

medicine ; calendar ; Old Polish literature ; astrology

Abstract:

The article is devoted to the subject of health and disease present in Old Polish calendars until the end of the 18th century. The calendars are a peculiar source for research on the period, as those popular texts accurately reflect the preferences and interests of their common readers. The calendars included astrological advice and also influenced the medical subjects they presented. Advice, comments and other information on the subject were present both in the calendar and in the prognostic part in many different forms, even poetry. The connection between calendars and medicine was so strong that the health advice was given even by the authors who did not specialise in astrology. The medico-astrological advice was usually of low quality, which was often pointed out by satirists.

Relation:

Analecta : studia i materiały z dziejów nauki polskiej

Volume:

29 (2020)

Issue:

2

Start page:

149

End page:

166

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Journal

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

1509-0957

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Original in:

Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS

Access:

Open