S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Brief summary
The article presents of the famous military therapist N.S. Molchanov in the formation and development of the domestic military field therapy. During the Soviet-Finnish war as a member of the advisory bureau under the head of the medical service of the front he managed the activities of military therapists at the stages of medical evacuation. The organizatiоnal talent of N.S. Molchanov was especially manifested in the years of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He served as army therapist chief physician of a number of fronts worked extensively and successfully in solving the problems of providing therapeutic field mobile hospital, became the autho of the pathogenetic classification of the present time. From 1956 to 1972 was the chief physician of the USSR Ministry of Defense was the author co-author and editor of several textbooks and manuals on military field therapy.
Key words
military field therapy, Nicolaj Semjonovich Molchanov, organization of therapeutic care, staged treatment