Dynamika rozwoju polskich nazw chorób w okresie od XVIII do XX wieku

The scope of the author’s interests covers medical vocabulary, with a particular focus on names of diseases. In this paper, she focused on observing the development of Polish names of diseases in the period from the 18th to the 20th century, when the development was most dynamic. The author based her analysis on the lexicographical material composed of over 500 lexical units. The excerpted names of diseases were first classified and then analysed in terms of their presence in a given period. Based on the results of the analysis, the author made an attempt to formulate an answer to the question how the Polish medical terminology regarding names of diseases was formed in the examined time-frame, what changes occurred there, and in what percentage the contemporary nomenclature of diseases consists of the 18th-, 19th- and 20thcentury terminology. In methodological terms, this study falls into the stream of structural linguistics as regards diachronic research, since the object of the examination is a section of the lexical resource coming from the Modern Polish period (the 18th-20th c.).