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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2415-8410</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2415-8429</issn><publisher><publisher-name>FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2917</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69541/NRIPH.2025.02.025</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>At the outset of Histology: Marie-François-Xavier Bichat</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sorokina</surname><given-names>Tatiana S.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>sorokina-ts@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Botchey</surname><given-names>Veronika M.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>botchey-vm@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ershov</surname><given-names>Andrey E.</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>ershov-ae@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2025-07-20" publication-format="electronic"><day>20</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>136</fpage><lpage>143</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-08-01"><day>01</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2025,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year></permissions><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.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Marie-François-Xavier Bichat</kwd><kwd>history of histology</kwd><kwd>history of anatomy</kwd><kwd>history of pathology</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Мари Франсуа Ксавье Биша</kwd><kwd>история гистологии</kwd><kwd>история анатомии</kwd><kwd>история патологической анатомии</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Dobo, Nicolas et Role, André. 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