CONTENTS

HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE

Smallpox vaccination in the Transbaikal region (from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century)
S.D. Batoev

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN MEDICINE

The old guard of domestic medical therapy: Military Medical Academy member V.N. Sirotinin (1855−1934)
V.I. Borodulin, M.V. Poddubniy, A.V. Topolyanskiy

Diaries of S.P. Botkin, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Tzar Family, as encyclopedia of medicine of the Russian Imperial Court
S.G. Zhuravskii

On the biography of Professor M.S. Makarov (1906–1977)
A.V. Kartashev, A.A. Vorotnikov

Pages from the biography of privatdozent T.I. Vyazemsky (1857−1914)
M.A. Morokhovets

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Medical councils and doctors’ societies in Saint Petersburg in the first half of the 19th century
E.A. Vishlenkova

The activities of the Siberia Public Healthcare Interregional Association in the 1990s
E.V. Lukov

On several prerequisites for the emergence of rational medicine according to Hippocratic Corpus
E.L. Panova

History of medicine in the Czech Republic: past and present
K. Černý