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Walery Jaworski
Polish internist, born March 20, 1849; died July 17, 1924, Krakow.
Associated eponyms:
Jaworski's bodies
Spiral mucous shreds seen in the secretion of the stomach in hyperchlorhydria.
Jaworski's sign
Signe d'ectasie paradoxale.
Jaworski's test
No longer used method from the pre-radiological era for determining stomach capacity using air.
Biography:
Walery Jaworski obtained his medical doctorate in 1880 and in 1905 became director of the medical clinic in Krakow. He made numerous scientific investigations in the field of digestion diseases. He was also the founder of the historical museum at the University of Krakow.
In 1899 he described bacteria living in the human stomach that he named "Vibrio rugula". He speculated that they were responsible for stomach ulcers, gastric cancer and achylia. It was one of the first observations of Helicobacter pylori. He published those findings in 1899 in a book titled "Podręcznik chorób żołądka" ("Handbook of Gastric Diseases") but it was available only in Polish and went unnoticed.
His findings were independently confirmed by Robin Warren (born 1937) and Barry Marshall (born 1951), both Australia, who were awarded the 2005 Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Thanks to this pioneering discovery, peptic ulcer disease is no longer a chronic, frequently disabling condition, but a disease that can be permanently cured.”
Jaworski was also a pioneer in the use of roentgen rays. The first Polish roentgen laboratories were established in Warszawa in February 1896. The first one was a private laboratory belonging to Mikołaj Brunner. In Kraków the first roentgen laboratory was established in the University Clinic; it was headed by Walery Jaworski. He had considerable achievements using radiological investigations in internal diseases. The most spectacular fact, placing him among the pioneers of the world radiology, was the description of the bile concrements and the first stomach examination with the use of a contrast media - carbon dioxide.
Walery Jaworski was professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Bibliography:
- Klinische Befunde bei Ulcus und Carcinoma ventriculi sowie bei Magenblutungen.
With Eduard Johannes Korczynski (1844-1905). Berlin, 1887.
- Zarys patologji i terapji żołądka.
[Kompendium der Pathologie und Therapie des Magens]. Krakow, 1889.
- Zarys patologji i terapji chorób żołądka. Warszawa, 1889.
- Cholera i jej leczenie“. Kraków i Warszawa, 1892.
- Podręcznik chorób żołądka wraz z djetetyką. With his wife Emma Mathes Jaworska.
In: Handbuch der Magenkrankheiten, Kraków 1893.
- Kuchnia higjeniczna i dietetykia szcegolowa dla choryc.
[Hygienische und diätetische Küche speziell für Kranke]. Kraków 1897.
- Prodrecznik chorób żołądka i dyetetyki szczegolowej.
[Handbuch für Magenkrankheiten und diätetische Küche]. Kraków 1899.
- Aquae minerales. Aquae medicinales. Kraków, 1900.
- O leczeniu wodami normalnemi.
[Über die Heilung mit Normalwassern]. Kraków 1905.
- O stosowaniu wód normalných w lecznictwie.
[Über die Anwendung der Normalwässer in der Therapie]. Kraków 1912.
- Wikipedia.
- J. W. Konturek:
Discovery by Jaworski of Helicobacter pylori and its pathogenic role in peptic ulcer, gastritis and gastric cancer.
Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society, December 2003, volume 54 Supplement 3: 23-41.
- Stanisław Leszczyński and Andrzej Urbanik:
History of Polish Radiology. (Based on "The history of Polish radiology against the background of the world radiology".
Kraków : Medycyna Praktyczna, 2000).
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