220 years of teaching botany in the Military medical academy named by C.M. Kirov (to the first issue of pharmacists)

Abstract

A historical analysis of the teaching of botany in the Military Medical (Medico-Surgical) Academy was conducted. The key periods of the formation and development of teaching botany in the Medico-Surgical Academy, then in the Military Medical Academy are highlighted. The teaching of botany in the Medico-Surgical Academy has been conducted since the foundation of the Academy (1798). The training of specialists in the field of pharmacy began in 1808, when a pharmaceutical department was opened at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy. The role of botany as a propaedeutic discipline for teaching pharmacognosy (the science of medicinal plants) is shown. The history of the creation and design of the Pharmaceutical Garden (the first botanical garden in the Russian Empire) and the Botanical Garden at the Medical-Surgical Academy (1843) is described. In 1860, an independent department of botany, phytomy and phytophysiology was opened. Analyzed the contribution of many famous scientists of the time in the formation and improvement of the teaching of botany in the Medical-Surgical Academy. The technique of teaching botany by specialists in the field of botany and pharmacy is described. The historical connection of botanist scientists of several generations, the relationship of teaching botany to teaching related disciplines in this historical period is shown. In 1930, the Department of Botany ceased to exist independently; The course of botany was taught in different departments. Since 1952, a separate course of botany has been abolished, and the botanical section was included, as a component, in the course of general biology. From 2013 to the present, the Academy has been training cadets and students in the specialty «Pharmacy». The curriculum for students in this specialty provides for the study of botany in the form of a separate course.

Keywords

history of teaching botany / Medical-Surgical Academy / history of military medicine in Russia / pharmaceutical personnel / professor of botany / Academic Botanical Garden / Department of Botany of the Military Medical Academy / Botany Office of the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy

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