Having opened in Moscow the first military. hospital in all Russia, Peter then added to it a surgical school, an atanomical hall and a. botanical garden, Next he founded a naval hospital in St. Petersburg, and one for the Army.
He realized that the absence of modern medical education jin Russia made it compare unfavourably with other western countries. Thus "classes in medicine were in short order instituted in practically will fall Russian universities; the Military Medical Academy was formed in St. Petersburg, and in the 19th century Russian medicine was not only able to stand on its own feet, but even gave birth to many eminent doctors and scientists whose names became Known the world over.
Since the end of the last century a vast number Of women in Russia received high medical education.
While yet studying in school a Russian doctor, following the precepts of the great Plrogoff, strived to be not only a specialist in his particular profession, dut, first and foremost, to be humanist, After the revolution Russian doctors sound all corners the world. places they are today so_numerous that they form their own associa.
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