[A failed attempt at establishing the public policlinic in Cracow in 1907]

The medical circles were reluctant to the publication of the Statutes of the Society of the Public Policlinic in Cracow; according to the concept of the Policlinic's founders, its purpose was to give free medical assistance to the sick, further education of its members in medical problems and performance of chemical research. The Society was to be joined by professors and assistant professors of the Jagiellonian University as well as hospital ward and laboratory heads. At the meetings held, the physicians objected to having a policlinic established because its activity might threaten the material existence of the physicians themselves. Similarly, prestige aspects spoke as well against having the Policlinic founded because the medical elite were to be treated there, constituting thus a hard competition to the remaining physicians. A strong counteraction of most physicians rendered the performance of this idea impossible.