The inguinal lymphatic gland, the largest in the human body, was one of the first to which the attention of anatomists was drawn in ancient times.

According to the anatomical localization of traumatic heart injuries, surgeons (Napalkov, Chugaev, Fisher, Ikovitz, etc.) are divided into the following three natural groups: 1) joint damage to the heart and bursa, 2) damage to one bursa, and 3) damage to one heart with an intact heart shirt.

Here is what Dr. S. Shklyarevskiy tells on the pages of "Doctor" (1882, No. 10) from the history of N.I. Pirogov's illness.

Turning to the analysis of individual pathological forms that took on an epidemic character in the campaign of 1812, it should be noted that all military campaigns in general for almost the entire 18th century, and Napoleonic campaigns in particular, together with the thunder of weapons, carried everywhere a very cruel, destructive general disease.