[Julian Kosiński (1833-1914)--especially meritorious surgeon for the development of otorhinolaryngology. His achievements in therapy of ear, nose, throat and borderland diseases].

The professional and scientific activities of Julian Kosiński (1833-1914), an eminent Varsovian surgeon, his thorough medical education in various European countries is shortly outlined. He was the versatile surgeon, the head of Surgical Clinic in the Main School and in the Imperial Warsaw University. Kosiński was the creator of "Varsovian surgical school". Kosiński's successful surgical treatment of otorhinopharyngeal diseases and the borderland (such as auricle's fibroma, keloid and periauricular atheroma, carcinomas of nasi and other parts of face, sarcomas of nasopharyngeal cavity and pharynx and maxillary sinus, syphilis of face, tuberculous ulceration of tongue, osteomas of palate and pharynx, foreign bodies of oesophagus, inflammations of parotid gland and other) are described in some more detail. The surgical therapy in that region such as plastic reconstruction of face, oesophagotomy was performed according to contemporary world-wide standards.