European influence on Russian neurology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In this study we consider the development of clinical neurology in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries focusing on European influence on Russian medicine. Russian physicians readily accepted newly described clinical signs, theories, and classification of nervous diseases designed in Europe. This influence initiated neurology's separation from general medicine and its transformation into a new clinical discipline. In Russia this happened already in the 1860s, decades before the similar trend in Europe. The Russian example is nearly unknown in the general history of neurology. It illustrates the relationships between physiology and practical neurology at the moment of establishment of the new discipline. It also shows that the Russian physicians of the time readily accepted European medical knowledge putting it immediately into medical practice and education.
Shterenshis
Michael
M
Alexander Mass Institute of Israeli Education (AMIIE), Hod Ha-Sharon, Israel. Shteren20@hotmail.com
Vaiman
Michael
M
D005060:Europe; D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000266:history*; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D012426:Russia; D013038:Specialization