title: Short notes
abstract: Composed of twenty-three texts (including two in Slovak) chronologically spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, the book opens with an essay by Anna Maria Wajda on biblical mentions of treatment or healing and medicine.This awkward text does not have much in common with history or science, mainly expressing its author's views regarding morals and mores.The subsequent article, by Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, a much more valuable text, concerns Indo-European sources of the Latin names of 
journal: Acta Poloniae Historica