Uzdrowisko w Druskienikach do 1939 r.

Uzdrowisko w Druskienikach do 1939 r.

Spas in Druskienikiach to 1939

Joanna Warmuzińska-Wnuk

From among a range of measures and various treatment methods commonly used, natural resources treatment, especially in the interwar years, was becoming more and more popular. It resulted from making national health resorts available to all social classes by granting considerable discounts both for accommodation as well as medical treatments. Especially important role in promoting the Polish health resorts played the physicians and thanks to their work, in the scientific and experimental scope in particular, they acquired their own specializations.
Druskieniki, as the only health resort in the north-east region at the time of the Second Polish Republic, was quickly rebuilt and properly equipped despite significant losses after the war. Salt springs, known and used since 1830, peat and needles as well as its values as regards the terrain and the climate put it on an equal footing with other national health resorts. However, the real boom in its development happened in the 1930s. At that time a scientific center was established in this health resort out of the initiative of prof. A. Januszkiewicz, who was the head of the Internal Ward of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius at that time. The purpose of his activity as regards health resorts was the research conducted by the physicians at the said University concerning the influence of natural resources of Druskieniki on the bodies of health resort visitors, taking into account the physicochemical properties of these resources.

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