Etnobotanika zaraz (epidemii) w świetle ankiety Józefa Rostafińskiego (1850–1928) z 1883 r.

Abstrakt

In 1883, Józef Rostafinski (1850–1928), a botanist and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (then Austria–Hungary), announced a survey regarding the names and uses of plants in the Polish lands. The most complete version of the questionnaire contained questions regarding approximately 130 species. The present paper refers to plants which were used against plagues (epidemics). Fourteen people sent 15 letters containing data on such plants (30 records in total with reference to two genera and 17 species, including one fungus). Almost all of the data obtained relate to cholera and show that in the second half of the 19th c. alcoholic extract from the Angelica sylvestris root was the most commonly used against cholera.