Aleksandra Wejman-Sowińska

Publications of Aleksandra Wejman-Sowińska

• [Remarks on homeopathy and therapeutic nihilism in the medical biography of Józef Dietl]

  Authors: Aleksandra Wejman-Sowińska

  Archiwum historii i filozofii medycyny / Polskii Towarzystwo Historii Medycyny i Farmacji. 02/2004; 67(2-4):121-37.

  Józef Dietl was for a time interested in homeopathy that became a germ for progressive turn in the conventional medicine in the second half of the 19th century and it have even a certain influence onJózef Dietl was for a time interested in homeopathy that became a germ for progressive turn in the conventional medicine in the second half of the 19th century and it have even a certain influence on Dietl's views. The paper tries to trace this influence in the therapeutic nihilism attributed to Dietl and indicates that in the Polish historiography there has been a tendency to pass over in silence the homeopathic train in the medical image of the eminent personage.