On the activities of German medical scientists in the first half of the 19th century at Kazan University

Abstract

In assessing the role of German physicians in the history of Russian medicine for a long time there were two mutually exclusive concepts: one of them extremely exaggerated this role, completely denying the identity of Russian medical thought in the first half of the last century, the other - negatively assessed the foreign experience and activities of foreign physicians in Russia. However, an unambiguous assessment of the activities of German medical scientists is erroneous. This is clearly evidenced by the data on their activities at Kazan University.