NIKOLAI ALEXEYEVICH TOL'SKY. TO COMMEMORATE THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the scientific, pedagogical, organizational and public work of Nikolai Alexeyevich Tol'sky (1832–1891), one of the founders of national pediatrics. He organized the clinic of children's diseases at the department of medicine, his majesty's university of Moscow (now Moscow academy of medicine named after I.M. Sechenov), insisted on the independence of pediatrics, helped it transform from theory to the clinical discipline. Among his pupils were such outstanding pediatricians as N.F. Filatov, N.P. Gundobin, N.S. Korsakov, etc.Key words: history of medicine, national pediatrics, N.A.Tol'sky, University of Moscow, Clinic of Children's Diseases.