ABSTRACT
The article considers the circumstances of the beginning of teaching medical police at St.Vladimir Imperial University in Kiev that was investigated for the first time. It was established that the medical police were taught as one of academic disciplines at the Department of State Medicine Studies. It found out that the given Department began its activities in 1843 when it was organized and headed by professor Ivan Fedorovich Leonov (1809-1854). The adjunct assistant professor Ch.Ya. von Hübbenet and associate professor A. I. Slobodzinsky worked at this Department in 1847-1850 and in 1851-1856 correspondingly. In 1852, the Charter and Staff of the St. Vladimir University provided setting apart medical jurisprudence from medical police subject and teaching it as an independent faculty discipline. It is demonstrated that hereinafter the given practice didn't become widespread in the Universities of the Russian Empire. In 1853, the Department of State Medicine Studies in Kiev was headed by F. F. Mering (1822-1887).
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Faculty, Medical , Police , History, 20th Century , Humans , Russia , State Medicine , UniversitiesABSTRACT
The article covers the life and the work of Ivan A. Petrovsky, doctor of medicine. His contribution into propaganda in the Russian Empire of the idea of French physician Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) concerning necessity of applying the statistical method in the clinical medicine. At that, the new facts of the biography of P.-Ch.-A. Louis were established. So, it is established that in Russia he was family doctor in the family of Armand-Charles-Emmanuel de Guignard, Comte de Saint-Priest (1782-1863). This discovery permitted to specify the circumstances of life of P.-Ch.-A. Louis in the Russian Empire. The study is also based on the archive materials founded in the Russian State Military History Archive. They are introduced into the scientific circulation for the first time.
