About therapeutic elite of the beginning of XX century: kazan therapist Alexey Nikolaevich ­Kazem-Bek

Abstract

The article highlights the life path, pedagogical and social activities of an outstanding therapist, pupil of V.N. Vinogradov, Alexei Nikolaevich Kazem-Bek. An analysis of his scientific heritage, as well as his scientific and social activities in those areas of the clinic of internal diseases that later took shape as cardiology and phthisiology, suggests that at the turn of the 19–20th centuries he was among the most prominent research therapists. So, his works on the problems of physiology and pathology of the cardiovascular system indicate that he can be attributed to the pioneers of the emerging domestic cardiology. Activities A.N. Kazem-Bek as the chairman of the Society of Physicians at Kazan University (1903–1907) and editor of the Kazan Medical Journal also allows him to be considered one of the representatives of the therapeutic elite in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The article also presents materials that are not well known to the medical reader, revealing the exceptionally attractive appearance of this person-a citizen-doctor. Along with the “Holy doctor” F.G. Yanovsky in Kiev and N.Ya. Chistovich in St. Petersburg, the death of A.N. Kazem-Bek summed up the gaazov (coming from the Moscow doctor F.P. Gaase) tradition of medical asceticism in domestic medicine.

Keywords

Alexey Nikolaevich Kazem-Bek / Imperial Kazan University / department of faculty therapy / Kazan’s therapeutic school / cardiology

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Borodulin V.I., Albitskiy V.Y., Topolyanskiy A.V.