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N.P. Kamenev and psychiatric care in the Tula province in the late 19th and the early 20th century

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v5.1.2018.06f 1Olga V. Tereshkina,2Elena N. Bobkova1Tula State University, Medical Institute, Tula128, Boldin St., Tula 300028, Russia2 FSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The late 19th to early 20th century saw the development of new scientific views and approaches to the understanding and treatment …

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The work of the American medical detachment as а part of the Russian army on the Caucasian front during World War I

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v5.1.2018.07g Ivan M. Chizh,Maria S. Sergeeva,Igor V. Karpenko,Ilya V. FedoseikinFSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The article covers a little-known episode from World War I, concerning the work of one of the foreign detachments (hospitals) in the Russian Tsarist army. The large-scale sanitary …

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On the history of the discovery of bacteriophages

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v5.1.2018.08h Andrey V. Ermolaev,Tatiana S. SorokinaPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia6, Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow 117198, Russia The article is devoted to an analysis of the significance of bacteriophages’ discovery in the subsequent development of medicine: from the prevention and control of infectious bacterial diseases to the study of global evolutionary mechanisms by genetic engineering methods. …

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Virchow’s node: historical and didactic features of the description of the eponym

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v5.1.2018.09i Nikolay N. Krylov,Aftandil V. Alekberzade,Elena A. PiatenkoFSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The eponym is a part of the nomenclature of medicine. In 1848, R. Virchow described the enlarged left supraclavicular lymph node (Virchow’s node), which he uncovered by physical examination. He …

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The practice of medical cartography from a historical perspective

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v5.1.2018.10j Alexey Yu. Kuzmenkov,Veronika M. Ostapenko,Roman S. KozlovSmolensk State Medical University28 Krupskoy St., Smolensk 214019, Russia This work covers the main stages in the development of medical cartography as a branch of medical geography. The author reveals the origin and early development of this analytical method when the development or preparation of maps with …

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The Pythagorean influence on medicine: a historical fact or a problem of interpretation? Part 2

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.01a Dmitry A. Balalykin,Nataliya P. ShokFSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The authors of this article consider the influence of the Pythagoreans’ views on medicine. They justify two significant for the history and philosophy of medicine theses. The first one is the lack …

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Personality and private life of S.P. Botkin (on the materials of “Letters of S.P. Botkin from Bulgaria of 1877”)

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.02b Sergei G. Zhuravskii1,21Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University MOH Russia6–8 L’va Tolstogo St., Saint Petersburg 197022, Russia2Almazov National Medical Research Centre MOH Russia2Akkuratova St., Saint Petersburg 197341, Russia “The letters of S.P. Botkin from Bulgaria of 1877” is the only epistolary document among the published works of the famous Russian physician. Traditionally, …

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The main trends of science and popular science literature evolvement in 1918–1935

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.03c Nikita Yu. PivovarovFSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The author of the article analyzes the main trends of the development of Soviet medicine, which had an impact on science and popular science literature, and highlights the key points determining the evolution of …

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Military medicine in the pre-revolutionary Transbaikalia

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.04d Sergey D. BatoevFSAEI HE I.M. Sechenov First MSMU MOH Russia (Sechenov University)8 Trubetskaya St., building 2, Moscow 119991, Russia The article deals with the moments related to the birth and development of military medicine in the pre-revolutionary Trans-Baikal region (Transbaikalia). The first military formations with permanent dislocation in this region appeared in the …

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Regional features of urban healthcare reforms in Western Siberia (1947 – late 1950s)

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v4.4.2017.05e Marina P. DudkinaNovosibirsk state technical University20 Karl Marx Avenue, Novosibirsk 630073, Russia In this article, regional aspects of Soviet urban healthcare reforms, introduced in the post-war period, are viewed following the analysis of archival data and publicly disclosed statistical sources. The administrative reform, the greatest in fifteen years that followed World War II, …

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