Search for: [Abstract = "Zygmunt Szantroch was born in 1894 in Sambor. After graduating in 1912 from secondary school in Tarnów he began his medical studies. During the First World War he served in the Polish Legions from 1914\-1915, the Austrian Army from 1915\-1918, and after this served in the Polish Army until 1921. He graduated from the Medical Department of Jagiellonian University, Kraków in 1922. From 1919 he worked as an assistant to Prof. Kostanecki at the Institute of Descriptive Anatomy in Kraków and there he obtained his scientific degree of docent in 1930. In 1935 he was appointed a professor. The chief them of Szantroch’s scientific investigations was the genesis and microstructure of the autonomic nerve system. Szantroch accepted the theory that the development of the nervous cells of the autonomic system from cells of the local mesoderm gave rise to the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal system and blood vessels. To prove his thesis he made many specimens from chicken embryos. In his scientific researches on histochemistry, pharmacodynamics, and tissue culture in vitro he used modern methods. The great amounts of preparations still preserved may serve as an example of the great expressiveness of impregnations methods by means of metal salts. Szantroch paid attention to the technique of tissue culture as well as to the elaboration of new methods in microscopic investigations making em"]
