[Treatment organization for patients with gunshot wounds of the maxillo-facial region evacuated during the military operations in the Far East (1938-1939) and the war with Finland (1939-1940)].

This article describes the path of the maxillo-facial surgery to becoming an independent part of the general surgery. We will look closely at the experience, gained y field surgeons during the events at Lake Hasan and Halkin-Gol river. The war with Finland, that enabled the surgeons to develop the system of specialized dental help for the gunshot wounds, to create standarts of specialized equipment, examples of splints, etc, which were widely used during the World War II.

[Diagnostics and treatment of acute odontogenic osteomyelitis of the mandible considering functional state of inferior alveolar nerve].

Evaluation of functional impairment of inferior alveolar nerve in acute odontogenic inflammatory processes was carried out in this clinical study by means of stimulation electroneurography. Possibility of early diagnosis of acute odontogenic osteomyelitis by this method and effectiveness of decompression osteoperforation for its treatment was shown.

[Bernardino Ramazzini--founder of occupational safety and health as a branch of medical pathology].

The article presents information about the outstanding Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini and scientist. Considered its contribution to the development of occupational hygiene and occupational diseases as a branch of medicine.

[The outstanding figure of domestic military and civil public health services].

The article presents data on the outstanding Soviet theorist and the organizer of Health Care, full member of Academy of Medical Science of the U.S.S.

[Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Pirogov--surgeon, scientist, teacher and public figure].

The article presents data on the outstanding surgeon and scientist, the teacher and public figure. Its contribution to the development of surgical anatomy and anatomo-experimental direction of surgery, field medical surgery, the organization and tactics of medical maintenance of armies are discussed.