DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.29o Nikolai I. Serikoff The Wellcome LibraryThe Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS This article contains the biography of the prominent French medical doctor and historian of medicine Lucien Nicolas Leclerc (1816-1893) as well as interpreted Latin transliterations of Arabic and Greek names of medicinal herbs and proper nouns, left by Leclerc in the …

Lucien Nicolas Leclerc: notes left in the margins of the Yuhanna ibn Sarabiyun treatise “De simplicibus medicinis” (Latin transliterations from Greek and Arabic) Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.30d Victoria V. RomanovaSechenov First Moscow State Medical University On the basis of archival documents, the formation process and activities of the local branches of the Russian Red Cross Society (RRCS) in Manchuria are examined. The branches were created in the late 19th to early 20th centuries during a period when the Russian Empire, …

The history of the work of the Russian Red Cross Society’s local branches in Manchuria Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.31r Pavel M. Bogopolsky1, Svetlana A. Kabanova21B.V. Petrovsky National Scientific Center of Surgery2N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care One of the special features of Russian medical science is the existence of large scientific schools headed by leaders of promising research fields who develop traditions of continuity and consistency in their students’ education and …

The contribution of P.I. Dyakonov and his scientific school in the development of esophageal surgery Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.32w Sergei G. Zhuravskii1,2, Vasilii V. Chikulin1 1Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University2Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre, Russian Federation For eight years (1872‒1880), S.P. Botkin served as the private physician of Empress Maria Alexandrovna who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis. The particular details of this clinical case were defined by its unique deontological aspects: …

Physician-in-ordinary S.P. Botkin and Empress Maria Alexandrovna: the facts and circumstances of a courtier’s career and the specific character of interrelationships Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.33c Nikolay N. Krylov, Elena A.PyatenkoSechenov First Moscow State Medical University The formation and development of organ-preserving operations with vagotomy in the second half of the 20th century in the faculty surgery clinic at the 1st Moscow Medical Institute is analyzed. The authors study the clinic when it was under the direction of academic …

The contribution of the faculty surgery clinic named after N.N. Burdenko of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute in the development of organ-preserving operations with vagotomy for treatment of peptic ulcer disease Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.34x Pavel I. Ogarkov, Aleksandr A. Kuzin, Sergey A. Svistunov, Denis A. Zharkov, Aleksey V. Smirnov, Mars I. IshkildinS.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy of the Russian Ministry of Defense The article provides an overview of the activities of the Department of General and Military Epidemiology of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy and its …

Historical and contemporary military epidemiology (on the 80th anniversary of the Department of General and Military Epidemiology of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy) Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.35a Ivan M. Chizh1, Jury E. Vyazovichenko1, Igor A. Grishin1, Alexander A. Baranov21 Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University2 Military unit № 93998Based on the memoirs of eyewitnesses and participants of the Battle of Borodino, the organizational principles of providing medical assistance to the Russian and French armies and the principles of medical care …

The organization and provision of medical care and assistance to Russian soldiers on the battlefield during the Battle of Borodino Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.36q Alexander S. Аvrunin, Elena А. TsesRussian Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after R.R. Vreden A brief biography of Julius Wolff is presented. It is demonstrated that the basis for the law he discovered is the graphic statics method of Carl Culmann and anatomist G.H. von Meyer’s data on the internal …

The birth of a new scientific field — biomechanics of the skeleton. Julius Wolff and his work “Das Gesetz der Transformation der Knochen” Read More »

DOI: 10.17720/2409-5834.v3.4.2016.37z Dmitry A. Balalykin1,2, Nataliya P. Shok1,2 1Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University2Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences The authors suggest a definition of the apodictic method that can be applied to the history of medicine and reveals its development in the works of Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen. The apodictic method of proof …

The apodictic method in the tradition of ancient Greek rational medicine: Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen Read More »