Polskie słownictwo medyczne w drugiej połowie XIX wieku oraz na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

The paper pays attention to the presently omitted period of Polish medical terminology. Examination of a sample of 2 medical vocabulary dictionaries issued in those days (dated 1881 and 1905) indicated a few properties: 1. it poses a system, 2. it is characterized by a variety of single-and-multi word phrases, 3. it did not cope with the synonymy and the polysemy, 4. it is diverse in terms of chronology, genetics and stylistics.