[Medical esthetics in the works of Polish doctors on the turn of the XIXth century].

The paper determines the objects of medical esthetics and the use of what is esthetic in doctor's practice and in medicine. The thesis of the paper is the assumption that medicine emerges out of esthetic distance. It is created by culture forms due to which biologicality of human body is restrained and subordinated. Medical esthetics examines these forms as well as their esthetic expressions in the art of therapy. The above assumption is documented by presenting the esthetic ideas of Polish doctors on the turn of the XIXth century. These ideas are represented first of all by: Zygmunt Kramsztyk, Henryk Nusbaum, Edmund Biernacki, Wladyslaw Bieganski, Heliodor Swiecicki and Wladyslaw Szumowski. The esthetic concepts and statement of the Polish doctors determine the limits of the objects of medical esthetics in which the doctor becomes the esthetic subject - creator of esthetic beauty, where as the medical art becomes esthetic form of medical practice.