[The story of the Wilhelm Malcz's "Warsaw Medical Journal" (1828-1829)]

The "Warsaw Medical Journal" (Pamietnik Lekarski Warszawski), the first Polish scientific medical journal, was published in Warsaw in the years 1828 and 1829. Its editor and publisher was W. Malcz - a great social activist and distinguished doctor. The articles were written mainly by doctors, but also by pharmacists and a writer, who informed readers about the development of medicine at home and abroad, enabled them to raise their professional qualifications, and encouraged them to engage in academic and literary activity. The articles comprised original works, sophistry, translations from foreign periodicals, descriptions of new instruments, book reviews and correspondence from Paris. The range of topics in the "Warsaw Medical Journal" was very broad. Articles covered internal and external diseases and pharmacology. In 1830 the journal was made the official organ of the Warsaw Medical Society. But then the November Uprising broke out, and prevented the journal's further development.