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At the outset of Histology: Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
- Authors: Sorokina T.S.1, Botchey V.M.1, Ershov A.E.1
- Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 136-143
- Section: История медицины
- URL: https://bulleten-nriph.ru/journal/article/view/2917
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.69541/NRIPH.2025.02.025
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Abstract
In this publication, based on the study of original French literary sources, the stages of education, formation of scientific views and main achievements of the founder of histology — an outstanding French physician of the period of the French bourgeois revolution, Marie-François-Xavier Bichat (1771—1802) are analyzed; some inaccuracies regarding his biography and date of birth found in foreign and Russian literature are discussed and corrected; for the first time in the Russian historical-medical literature the list of twenty one tissues identified by him has been presented (in original French and with the authors’ translation into Russian); his contribution to the development of fundamental sciences — anatomy, histology, pathological anatomy (tissue pathology), as well as therapy and surgery is described; and tribute maintaining memory of him in his homeland is although shown.
About the authors
Tatiana S. Sorokina
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: sorokina-ts@rudn.ru
Veronika M. Botchey
Email: botchey-vm@rudn.ru
Andrey E. Ershov
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: ershov-ae@rudn.ru
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