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BartłomiejBeniowski,1800-1867
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successor,WacławPelikan,fiagile,elegant,handsomewithdarkhair,”andfrom
1817professoroftheoreticalandpracticalsurgery,whoallowedsomeofthe
studentstoperformoperationsintheclinic,butwasnotpopular.
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Beniowski
musthaveprovedhisworthoverthewholerangeofrequiredsubjectsinorderto
begivenandtoretainaTreasuryscholarship,butIthinkthatfromthebeginning
hedidnotenjoy,andmayhaveactivelydisliked,theminutiaeofpractical
medicine.Itispossible-althoughthismaybetheanachronisticattributionof
thesensibilitiesofalaterage-thathefoundtheinstrumentalattitudesto
patientsdemonstratedbyFrankandPelikanunpalatable,andtheconductof
operationsonunanaesthetisedsubjectsdistressing.
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Apartfromhisacademicwork,Beniowskiwasturningfromateenagerinto
atallandgoodlookingyoungmaninWilno,forwemustassumethatby1818he
hadattainedhisimpressiveadultheightofjustover6feet;hehadlightbrown
hair,blueeyes,aregularovalfaceandroundchin.
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Meanwhile,hewastaking
hisfirstindependentstepsinPolishsociety.Hehimselftellsusthathearrivedat
theUniversitywithfiaboveall,aheartofaspoiledchildinmybreast.”Healso
tellsusthathefiwasneververyaffable,”anddidnotenjoychit-chatwithhis
landladyandherdaughters.Whenhewasworriedorupsetaboutsomething,
fitheycouldhardlygetfrommeasinglesyllable.”
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Perhapsthiscurmudgeonly
attitudefadedasBeniowskiemergedfromhisteens.Perhapsheeventookpart
laterinthegamesofromantic,courtlylove,whichOttoŚlizieńclaimswere
universalamongWilnostudents.
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From1820,Beniowskibecameperforce
morecloselyintegratedintothestudentcommunity.Theacademicyear1820-
1821,whenhefirstreceivedaTreasuryscholarship,broughtamarkedchangein
hislifestyle,forhetransferredhislivingquartersfromtheWiszniewskis)home
tothetraditionalmonasteryaccommodationmadeavailabletoscholarship
students,andwasgivenacellinthecentrallylocated18th-centuryDominican
monastery,oneblockfromtheUniversity,whereheremaineduntil1823.
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TheWilnomonasterieswereobligedtoofferseveralTreasurystudentsacell
withabed,table,chairs,bedlinen,lightandfuel,inreturnforwhich,theywere
freedfrommilitarybilleting.KarolKaczkowski,whoresidedinthesame
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ibid.,vol.1,pp.80-81;DanielBeauvois,Wilno,op.cit.,p.214;OttoŚlizień,fiZpa-
miętnika,”op.cit.,pp.140-141.
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Frank)sclinicwasformedicallyinterestingcases,oftenthoseforwhichtherewasno
hope,sothatthebodiescouldlaterbedissected:seeJózefFrank,Pamiętniki,vol.I,p.126,vol.III,
p.260.
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TheseelementsofhisappearancewererecordedinMarseillein1834:Beniowskiwas
1.84metrestall:ADdPdD[4]M276,fiPasse-portGratuitvalablepourunan,”Marseille
11.IV.1834.
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BartłomiejBeniowski,AHandbookofPhrenotypics,op.cit.,pp.30-34.
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OttoŚlizień,fiZpamiętnika,”op.cit.,pp.123-124.
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