D.A. Balalykin I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation The article is devoted to the writings of Galen “De venae sectione adversus Erasistrateos Romae degentes”. The author focuses on the analysis of the debate between Galen and his opponents, the subject of which is an approach to …

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М.Y. Chernichenko I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation The article investigates the problem of insufficient knowledge of the life and work of the first people’s commissar of health, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko. Documents from the collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine at the I. …

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