1763 BELL, John (traveller) (1691 – 1780)
Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to various parts of Asia in 1716, 1719, 1722 &c. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9535
1771 –1776 PALLAS, Peter Simon (1741 – 1811)
Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. 3 vols.
"Between 1768 and 1774, he [Pallas] led an expedition to central Russian provinces, Povolzhye, Urals, West Siberia, Altay, and Transbaikal, collecting natural history specimens for the academy. He explored the Caspian…
GMN 9564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11750
1776 DIMSDALE, Thomas (1712 – 1800)
Thoughts on general and partial inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there in the Russian language; also outlines of two plans: One, for the general inoculation of the poor in small towns and villages. The other, for the general inoculation of the poor in London and other large and populous places.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11705
1791 MOHRENHEIM, Joseph Jacob von (1759 – 1797)
Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.
This work was edited by order of Catherine II of Russia, to whom von Mohrenheim was accoucheur. Its importance lies mainly in its splendid engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie (see No. 6154.1). It include…
GMN 6161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7744
1813 –1817 RICHTER, Wilhelm Michael von (1767 – 1822)
Geschichte der Medicin in Russland. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6566 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8267
1817 MORICHEAU-BEAUPRÉ, Pierre-Jean (1778 – 1857)
Des effets et des propriétés du froid, avec un aperçu historique et médical sur la campagne de Russie.
Relative to the suffering of Napoleon's soldiers during the bitter cold of Russian winters, includes methodology of resucitation of victims of freezing. Digital facsimile of thesis issue of the 1817 edition from the I…
GMN 11154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13351
1825 LYALL, Robert (1789 – 1831)
Travels in Russia, the Krimea, the Causcasus and Georgia.
GMN 13874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16164
1843 BASOV, Vasili Aleksandrovich (1812 – 1879)
Voie artificielle dans l’estomac des animaux.
First gastric fistula established specially for the purpose of experimentation.
GMN 992.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/713
1847 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Nouveau procédé pour produire, au moyen de la vapeur d’éther, l’insensibilité chez les individus soumis à des opérations chirurgicales.
Pirogov was the first to practise rectal etherization, suggested by Roux earlier in 1847.
GMN 5655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7296
1847 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Recherches pratiques et physiologiques sur l’éthérisation.
Pirogov, the great military surgeon, was with Syme the first in Europe to adopt ether anesthesia, and he left an interesting account of his experiences with it. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 5656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7297
1848 –1851 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879); AUVERT, Alexandre Ivanovich ( – 1865)
Selecta praxis medico-chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet Alexander Auvert, ...Typis et figuris expressa Parisiis, moderante Ambroise Tardieu.
Auvert was professor in Moscow. This folio atlas includes 120 folio plates of pathology subjects, drawn by Schtschegoleff in Moscow. The text is in Latin throughout. The drawings were engraved in Paris by Oudet, print…
GMN 7495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9667
1851 –1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.
Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…
GMN 5601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7101
1852 –1859 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Anatome topographica sectionibus per corpus humanum congelatum triplici directione ductis illustrata. 8 pts.
Pirogov was the greatest of Russian surgeons. He introduced the teaching of applied topographical anatomy in Russia. His atlas of 220 plates represents the first use on a grand scale of frozen sections in anatomical i…
GMN 416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/950
1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]
Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.
GMN 4465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/137
1858
Medical and surgical history of the British Army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia, in the years 1854-56. 2 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
First official medical and surgical history of a war.
GMN 2165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1041
1858 MACLEOD, Sir George Husband Baird (1828 – 1892)
Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Reprinted in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 during the American Civil War for the Confederate States Army by J. W. Randolph; digital facsimile of the Richmond edition from…
GMN 9312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11494
1863 SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhailovich (1829 – 1905)
Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.
Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.
GMN 1362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1681
1869 –1870 FEDCHENKO, Alexei Pavlovich (Aleksei FEDTSCHENKO) (1844 – 1873)
On the structure and reproduction of Filaria medinensis L.
Fedchenko, a Russian naturalist and explorer of central Asia, elucidated the life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite of dracunculiasis. He discovered its means of transmission via copepod intermediate hosts…
GMN 5344.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8616
1876 NOVINSKY, Mstislav Alexandrovich (1841 – 1914)
O privivanii rakovikh novoobrazovanii. [On the inoculation of cancerous neoplasms.]
Novinsky successfully transplanted two tumors in dogs. German translation in Zbl. med. Wiss., 1876, 14, 790-91. A fuller report appeared in his thesis K voprosu o privivanii zlokachestvennich novoobrazovanii (eksperim…
GMN 2620.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3144
1876 PELIKAN, Evgeny Ventseslavovich (1824 – 1884)
Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.
Pelikan, professor of forensic medicine in St. Petersburg, published this German version of his treatise on the fanatical Russian Christian sect Skoptsy, known for its practice of castration, clitoridectomies, and mas…
GMN 12995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15244
1877 ECK, Nikolai Vladimirovich (1848 – 1908)
K voprosu o perevyazkie vorotnoi veni. Predvaritelnoye soobshtshenize. [On the ligature of the portal vein.]
Eck developed the “Eck fistula” for the experimental study of diseases of the liver and the relation of the liver to metabolism. English translation in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1953, 96, 375.
GMN 630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/586
1881 REYHER, Karl Karlovich (Carl Dietrich Christoph von) (1856 – 1890)
Ueber primäres Debridement der Schusswunden.
Reyher, a Russian surgeon, reintroduced débridement and made a controlled study of its value in contaminated gunshot wounds during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. See No. 2177.
GMN 2176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1214
1885 –1887 FILATOV, Nil Feodorovich (1847 – 1902)
Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolierznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] 2 vols.
Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) was first described by Filatov under the name of idiopathic adenitis (“Filatov’s disease”). A German translation of his book appeared in 1895-97.
GMN 5485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6418
1886 –1890 MANSUROV, Nikolai Porfir'evich (1834 – 1892)
Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.
Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…
GMN 7744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9916
1886 SAVTSCHENKO, Peter Nikolaevich (SAVCHENKO) (1846 – 1885)
Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.
The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.
GMN 9665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11852
1887 FILATOV, Nil Feodorovich (1847 – 1902)
Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolieznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] Vol. 2
On p. 113 is Filatov’s account of a form of rubella with a scarlatiniform rash. To this he gave the name “rubeola scarlatinosa”. (See also No. 5505.)
GMN 5503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6476
1891 ALTUKHOV, Nikolai
Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].
In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…
GMN 7243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9412
1898 BOROVSKII, Petr Fokich (1863 – 1932)
On sart sore.
First description of the protozoon later named Leishmania tropica. The paper is in Russian; for a translation, see C. A. Hoare, in Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 1938, 32, 78-90.
GMN 5294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6438
1905 KOROTKOV, Nikolai Sergeievich (1874 – 1920)
On methods of studying blood pressure.
Korotkov introduced the modern method of applying the stethoscope to the brachial artery during blood-pressure examination with Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer, for the purpose of investigating the sounds made by the bl…
GMN 2818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3498
1907 MATIGNON, Jean-Jacques (1866 – 1928)
Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15061
1908 IGNATOVSKI, Alexander I. (1875 – 1955)
[In Russian:] Changes in parenchymatous organs and in the aorta of rabbits under the influence of animal protein.
Experimental atherosclerosis produced by a cholesterol-rich diet of whole milk, egg yolks, and meat. French translation as" Influence de la nourriture animale sur l'organisme des lapins," Arch. Méd. exp. Anat. path.,1…
GMN 2913 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4886
1909 MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)
The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11627
1913 ANICHKOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Anitschkow) (1885 – 1964); CHALATOV, Semen Sergeevich (1884 – 1951)
Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.
Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…
GMN 2915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4890
1916 HIS, Wilhelm Jr. (1863 – 1934)
Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).
His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.
GMN 5387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7134
1917 FILATOV, Vladimir Petrovich (1875 – 1956)
Plastika na kruglom stebl. [Plastic procedure using a round pedicle].
Filatov used a tubed pedicle flap in September 1916. English translation in Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1959, 39, 277-87.
GMN 5757.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6682
1927 ARINKIN, Mikhail (1876 – 1948)
"Methodology of examining bone marrow in live patients, with haemopoietic disease."
Needle puncture of bone marrow biopsy. (In Russian.) German account in Folia haemat. (Lpz.), 1929, 38, 233-40. English translation from the German in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 339-44.
GMN 3088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8947
1928 ROSSIISKII, Dmitri M.
Bibliographicheskii ukazatel' russkoi literatury po istorii meditsiny s 1789 g. po 1928.
GMN 7824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9996
1928 GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)
A medical review of Soviet Russia.
Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …
GMN 11005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13201
1933 NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943); KINGSBURY, John Adams (1876 – 1956)
Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12500
1933 KOWARSKI, M. O.
Die Zahnheilkunde in Russland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.
GMN 12910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15157
1937 GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)
Russian medicine.
GMN 6567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8268
1937 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.
"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…
GMN 9832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12020
1939 ZILBER, Lev Aleksandrovich (Alexandrovich) (1894 – 1966)
Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]
Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.
GMN 4660.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/785
1947 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
Medicine and health in the Soviet Union.
GMN 6569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8269
1956 ROSSIISKII, Dmitri M.; PETROV, Boris Dmitrievich (1904 – 1991)
Istoriia vseobshchei i otechestvennoi meditsiny i zdravookhraneniia: Bibliografiia (996-1954). Edited by B. D. Petrov.
GMN 6569.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8271
1962 LURIA, Aleksandr Romanovich (Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия) (1902 – 1977)
Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.
First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
GMN 7207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9374
1962 DEMIKHOV, Vladimir Petrovich (Влади́мир Петро́вич Де́михов) (1916 – 1998); HAIGH, Basil (1919 – 2005)
Peresadka zhiznenno vazhnykh organov v eksperimente. Experimental transplantation of vital organs. Authorized translation from the Russian by Basil Haigh.
Demikhov coined the term transplantology, and this work, first published in Russian in 1960, and translated and published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, was the first monograph on transplantation of organs an…
GMN 7946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10121
1964 KOSHTOYANTS, Khachatur Sedrakovich (1900 – 1961)
Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.
Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.
GMN 8145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10321
1965 SERGEYEV, A. A.
Essays on the history of aviation medicine.
"Translation of Ocherki po istorii aviatsionnoy meditsiny," Moscow: U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences Publishing House, 1962. Primarily useful for the history of aviation medicine in Russia, with a very extensive biblio…
GMN 2138.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2702
1966 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
GMN 12125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14334
