CONTENTS

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

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

D.A. Balalykin, N.P. Shok

HISTORY OF RUSSIAN MEDICINE

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

S.G. Zhuravskii

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

N.Yu. Pivovarov

HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE

Military medicine in the pre-revolutionary Transbaikalia

S.D. Batoev

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

M.P. Dudkina

The emergence of professional obstetric aid in Smolensk province in the 19th – early 20th century

N.A. Mitsyuk, N.L. Pushkareva, V.M. Ostapenko

SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY

To the biography of Professor V.G. Vogralik: method of acupuncture and aspects of Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1950s

O.S. Nagornykh

YOUNG SCHOLAR

To the biography of N.A. Semashko

E.V. Arsentyev, V.A. Reshetnikov

On the history of clinical neurology at Imperial Moscow University: the department of nervous diseases at the Novo-Catherine hospital in 1911–1913

A.A. Bryleva, Ye.L. Panova

BOOK REVIEW

Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma. Review

E.V. Afonasin, A.S. Afonasina