[Reflections].

Abstract

The author remembers the time, when in the gloomy years of Stalin's regime after the II World War, the lectures of the history of medicine were eliminated in the Medical Academies in Poland. A similar thing happened to the history of pharmacy in pharmaceutical faculties, which is why the author is now asking if lectures on the history of pharmacy or medicine were really necessary? After all, many outstanding doctors and pharmacists graduated at that time? And his answer is that it was a great educational mistake. The history of medicine and the history of pharmacy carry humanitarian lessons of great importance to doctors and pharmacists. History demonstrates that they, off all professions should understand the suffering and pain of a sick patient. Knowledge of the history of medicine and the history of pharmacy can only help.