[Jan Ewangelista Purkynie, and the Annals of the the Medical Faculty].

Jan Ewangelista Purkynĕ, the founder of the modern physiology and histology, professor of the University in Wrocław (1823-1850), deserve a reward not only to the Czech national culture, but also made much to approach our countries. But what is less known is the fact concerning his cooperation with Annals of the Medical Faculty in Jagiellonian University and his additional office professors Józef Majer and Franciszek Skobel. This first publication on the subject of cardiacl conductional fibres, later caller Purkynĕ's fibres reveals in the second volume of Annals of Medical Faculty in Jagiellonian University AD 1839, six years before the publication in German. Bogusław Palicki was one of the fourteen doctoral students Wrocław Physiological School J.E. Purkynĕ. It is necessary to underline not only Purkynĕ vivid connection with eminent personage in those days of European science-with Cracow colleagues and his research organ-but also a high scientific and additional standard of Annals, which ended their life with the fall of the Cracow Republic AD 1846. Purkynĕ's studies and discoveries also in the present time are of lasting scientific as well as medico-historical values.