O literaturze mirakularnej, epilepsji i innych zagadnieniach poruszonych przez Elżbietę Nowosielską w książce pt. „Melancholia, szaleństwo i inne »choroby głowy« w Rzeczypospolitej w XVII i XVIII wieku”
On miraculous literature, epilepsy and other issues raised by Elżbieta Nowosielska in her book entitled “Melancholy, madness and other ‘headaches’ in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th centuries”

Summary/Abstract: For decades, the history of medicine, healing, medical culture, health, etc. has been fascinat-ing researchers: historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and doctors alike. Researchers inthis field use source materials that have been known in science for a long time, often creatinga questionnaire of issues and questions that no one has posed so far. Elżbieta Nowosielska’spublication, entitled „Melancholy, madness and other ‘headaches’ in the Polish-LithuanianCommonwealth in the 17th and 18th centuries” (2021) belongs to this group of works. It isclear to anyone who has dealt with books of miracles and graces that, on the basis of themiraculous literature, if properly explored, E. Nowosielska would have come close to one ofthe goals outlined in the book’s introduction – a possibly complete picture of the approachto madness or melancholy. The author underestimated the effort made by Jowita Jagla, a re-searcher into the books of miracles and graces, and the votive offerings, who discusses issuesrelated to epilepsy in her work, and disregarded several other texts. This does not speak verywell of the search she carried out.

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