„Romantyczność” i wileński entourage medyczny

Abstract

The article discusses three strands of interest in animal magnetism in Vilnius: academic (J. Frank, J. Śniadecki), urban (I. E. Lechnický, J. Baudouin de Courtenay) and plebeian (healer Antosiek). Furthermore, the author identifies the trend represented by students (T. Zan, A. Mickiewicz). Clinical cases described in medical terms are treated here as a context for creating Mickiewicz’s Romanticism, which is characteristic of the epoch’s fascination with different states of consciousness, commonly referred to as „madness”.