VETERINARIES PREPARE FOR FIRST POLISH SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS

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• Publication Date: October 31, 1951
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Medvcvna Weterynaryjna, Vol VI, No 10, 1950.
VETERINARIES PREPARE FOR FIRST POLISR SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS
For the past few months, veterinary doctors have been intensively prepar-
ing for the coming First Polish Scientific Congress.
The following have been appointed members of the veterinary clinical science
group: Prof-Dr Stanislaw Runge (chairman), Prof-Dr Zygmunt Markowski, Prof-Dr
Kazimierz Szczudlowski, Prof-Dr Jozef Kulczycki, Prof-Dr Michal Gedroyc, Aast
Prof-Dr Zdzislaw Finik, and Doctors Adam Szwabowicz, Stanislaw Masztalerz, Marian
Wislocki, Stanislaw Spiewak, Adolf Zdrojewski, and Stefan Gruszecki.
Dr Zygmunt Markowski, senior professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
at the University and the polytechnic in Wroclaw, is one of the old-timers still
active in this type work.
Through the efforts of the old-time veterinary doctort~ Polish veterinary
medicine was established on a good level, and during the period from the end of
World War I, when Poland gained her independence, to the start of World War II,
veterinary schools and sciences were expanded further. During this period,
efforts were concentrated mainly on organizational and scientific work in schools
and a few scientific centers; however, this work did not expand to proportions
capable of meeting the needs of anew nation arising from 100 years of slavery
and 'war destruction: This was due to the meager endowment of these ecientifi~
centers, particularly in the field of therapeutics. The slowest branch of
veterinary science to expand was veterinary clinical 'science, particularly thera-
peutics. The main cause of this slow expansion in therapeutics was not only the
shortage of veterinary doctors, most of whom were employed in administration,
but also the lack of opportunity for field work. Another reason was the inade-
quate cooperation of veterinary clinicians among themselves and with animal
breeders. Cooperati~ was limited mainly to consultations on specific cases with-
out joint planning Por cooperation for the prevention and treatment of diseases.
Above all, there was insufficient supervision over the over-all veterinary
therapy program by the state, and there was no direct permanent contact between
scientists and clinical practitioners on the one hand, and farmers on the other.
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With the rise of People's Poland and socialized farming after World War II,
the veterinaries were not adequately prepared to meet the changed needs of
socialized village life. The marked shortage oY veterinary doctors, schools,
and clinical centers then came to light.
Realizing the importance of veterinary therapy, Poland, while still in
ruins, activated veterinary faculties in three universitiStatenVeterinary Ine
activities of the PIW (Panstwowy Znstytut Weterynary,jny,
stitute) and the PLW (Panstwowe Lecznice Weterynary,jne, State Veterinary Hospi-
tals) in 1945, despite the shortage of professors, space, buildings, equipment,
and educational aids. Today there ame over 100 PLW; under the Six-Year Plan,
the number will be increased to 125.
Poland at present has veterinary clinics for internal diseases, surgery,
and delivery at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University and the
Polytechnic in Wroclaw. There are three similar clinics at the Veterinary
Faculty of the University of Warsaw, and three at Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univer-
sity in Lublin.
Ophthalmology has been added to the surgical clinic at Warsaw, and the
surgical clinic at Wroclaw has added both ophthalmology and veterinary ortho-
pedics. The delivery clinics in Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Lublin are not function-
ing fully because of the lack of space and the lack of professors to fill these
positions. In Wroclaw, the director of the clinic for internal diseases is
also the director of the Research Center on Epizootiology.
At Poznan University, there is a Llvestock Veterinary Research Center.
Three pharmacology laboratories at the veterinary faculties in Warsaw, Wroclaw,
and Lublin have been included in the veterinary clinical science group for the
First Polish Scientific Congress. The pharmacological laboratory at Warsaw is
headed by a professor, the one in Lublin by an assistant professor, and the one
in Wroclaw by an associate professor. Six professors, three assistant professors,
and three docents have charge of the ten above-mentioned research laboratories
and clinics. The total number of associate professors and permanent assistants
does not exceed 40.
Information gathered from field trips and from reports sent in by the
directors of the above-mentioned institutes disclosed that:
1. There was an alarming shortage of clinical buildings, equipment, appara-
tus, and educational aids.
2. The number of auxiliary scientific personnel was too low in comparison
with the number of students attending.
3. Professors and auxiliary scientific personnel were greatly overburdened
with pedagogical, didactic, and administrative work, and services to outside
administrative, legal, and other agencies.
4. From 1945 to May 1950, the above-mentioned research laboratories and
clinics issued over 60 important scientific and experimental dissertations, in-
cluding nine doctors' dissertations, three teachers;' qualifying dissertations,
and three textbooks. These centers are now working,, on several score disserta-
tions covering clinical problems; however, only four centers have a well-defined
research program.
5. A relatively large number of dissertations were not printed because of
printing difficulties. The greater part of the dissertations were published in
the scientific periodical Medycyna Weterynary,jna, which is rated highly in the
veterinary scientific field. Only a small number of dissertations were published
in formal publications of scientific societies of the Polish Academy of Science,
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the PTPN (Polskie Towarzystwo Pracownikow Naukowych, Po11sh Society of Scientific
Workers!, and others. The publishing of scientific dissertations, particularly
ttte more extensive ones, is, on the whole, difficult, especially since such work
is sow not accepted by Medycyna Weterynary,jna, and printing in other publications
takes months and, in some cases, even years. An exception is the well-organized
periodical Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, which pub-
lishes this type cf work in a separate section entitled "Sectio DD--Medicina
veterinaria."
In discussions at meetings, some clinicians pointed out that clinical stu-
dies are difficult to plan because of random factors and the wide range of sub-
,jects, Clinical studies are conditioned by chance developments, and are related
to specific cases rather than general problems. General problems can be solved
by clinicians only in cooperation with bacteriologists, epizootiologists, physiol-
ogists, anatomists, and pathologists. One of the participants in this meeting
mentioned the lack of appreciation of this type of close cooperation between
clinicians and other specialists, as evidenced by the fact that there is no ana-
tomical and pathological group in the veterinary subsection of the congress.
Unusually valuable observations and suggestions pertaining to the organiza-
tion and planning of veterinary clinical research were given by practicing
clinicians as follows:
1. Clinical positions in veterinary schools should be occupied as far as
possible by veterinary doctors with the support of a full auxiliary staff both
for research in laboratories and for practical clinical training of veterinary
students.
2. The curriculum of clinical subjects should be most scrupulously worked
out for balanced theoretical and practical training.
3. Specialization should be introduced in clinics.
4. Clinical research centers should be set up in the field, and practicing
veterinaries should have an opportunity to continue their studies.
5. The planning of locations and the construction of therapeutic hospitals
for animals should not rest exclusively in the hands of administrative officials;
scientists should be consulted.
6. Some selected veterinary hospitals could become extensions of veterinary
faculties in universities, with topics of research worked out under the direction
of professors. This would offer proper training for the student, graduate, and
,junior veterinary doctor specializing in veterinary clinical science.
7. Since present diagnosis and study of animals, especially the alimentary
tract, is antiquated, it should be modernized. The veterinary instrument room
in clinics should be modernized, and modern methods of treating animals with anti-
biotics should be worked outs
At the last meeting of the veterinary clinical science group on 29 Juna 1950,
it was agreed that the following problems are to be;streased in the Six-Year Plan:
1. The influence of environment on diseases in animals, with the develop-
ment of research methods based on the latest diagnostics, modern surgical methods,
and internal medical therapy.
2. The development of new therapeutic methods based on domestic raw prod-
ucts and Soviet science.
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3. Cooperation with bacteriologists and epidemiologists on the development
of methods to control diseases with the greatest economic significance, partic-
withlattentionlto autogenousoand~exogenousufactorsa~geographica181ocatione ~dtitis
seasonal trends.
4. Cooperation with parasitologists on the method of combating parasitic
diseases, with the extermination of parasites in Poland.
5. Anatomical and pathological research on the above-mentioned problems.
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