Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (11 November 1849 in

Włodawa Włodawa (; yi, וולאָדאַווע, Vlodave; ua, Володава, Volodava) is a town in eastern Poland on the Bug River, close to the borders with Belarus and Ukraine. It is the seat of Włodawa County, situated in the Lublin Voivodeship ...

- 8 March 1924 in

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) was a Polish pulmonologist and professor of the

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. He specialised in the field of Phthisiatry (study of

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) and he was one of the pioneers of modern treatment to diseases of the respiratory system. In 1908 founded the '' Towarzystwo Przeciwgruźlicze''. He contributed to the spread of medical knowledge about the disease, and he opened a treatment clinic in

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. From 1880 until his death he worked in the editorial " Gazeta Lekarska" (Doctor's Newspaper) and his expert knowledge of tuberculosis produced many high quality journals on the subject. In 1914,

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awarded him the title of Doctor

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for his contributions to the field of phthisiatry. He died in 1924, but after World War II, the village of

Sokołowsko Sokołowsko (german: Görbersdorf) is a village and traditional climatic spa town, health resort in Gmina Mieroszów, within Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. First information about Goerbersdorff appears in ...

was named after him.

Bibliography

* Alfred Sokolowski. Beiträge zur Klinik der Tuberkulose 37, 3, 1917 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sokolowski, Alfred 1849 births 1924 deaths Polish pulmonologists University of Warsaw faculty People from Włodawa Burials at Powązki Cemetery Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta