[Activity of the pharmacology department of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow medical academy over the last 40 years (on the 70th birthday of academician of the Russian academy of medical sciences Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Kharkevich]

Abstract

The Department of Pharmacology of the Moscow Medical Academy has a renowned history of long standing. The course of pharmacology was read for the first time at the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University in 1764. The Department of Pharmacology was organized in 1804 and was headed during its existence by many eminent scientists (see the Table) who richly contributed to the development of Russian Pharmacology. The history of the Department of Pharmacology of the Moscow Medical Academy from the time of its foundation till 1957 has been set forth briefly by collaborators of the Department in a series of publications (V. G. Dagurov and A. A. Myazdrikova, 1981;. V. G. Dagurov, 1983, 1987; D. N. Samoilov, 1991). This article is dedicated to 70th birthday of professor D. A. Kharkevich and 40 years (1957-1997) of this activity in the department of pharmacology of the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. In 1957 D. A. Kharkevich was appointed as a docent, in 1963--professor and since 1964--he was been the chairman of this department.