[Jan Radlica prescription from the years of his episcopacy in Cracow (1382-1392)]

In 1953 the author for the first time published the Polish translation of five prescriptions of a Cracow bishop and doctor Jan Radlica dating from his episcopacy in Cracow between 1382 and 1392. They were addressed probably to his Hungarian friend of an unknown name in a form of the letter. Prescriptions contain medicines like pills, syrup, brew, poultice and a pear fruit to be applied in case of a headache. Following an extensive characteristics of Radlica as a physician presented by Stanisław Sroka, the author read again Radlica's paper from the Middle Ages and analysed the contents of his prescriptions pointing the degree to which Radlica based on the works of Mesue the Younger and Mattheus Platearius. On the grounds of the above considerations Radlica must have been an important consultant for the recepient of the letter well read in pharmacotherapy able to precisely describe the preparation of medicines and making them easily available to the sick.