[Outstanding anatomist Felix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748-1794)].

Felix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748-1794) was a distinguished eighteenth-century scientist, personal physician to Queen Marie Antoinette and secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine, who made significant contributions to theoretical and practical medicine, most notably to neuroanatomy. His descriptions of the brain were among the most accurate of the time, and his «Traité d'Anatomie et de Physiologie» is one of the best neuroanatomical works. Vicq-d'Azyr was the first to use lithography in neuroanatomy, as well as the founder of the technique for dissecting fixed brain matter.

[Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) and his contribution to neurology (the 250th anniversary of the birth)].

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) is Scottish physiologist, surgeon, artist, philosopher and anatomist. Throughout his professional career, Charles Bell made a number of important discoveries and published a large number of scientific papers. Bell first presented a detailed description of the clinical picture of facial palsy (later named after him) and a number of other neurological disorders, as well as important information about referred pain and reciprocal inhibition.

[Clinical anatomy of the Bernasconi-Cassinari artery].

The article provides a comprehensive overview of the Bernasconi-Cassinari's artery (marginal tentorial branch of internal carotid artery, ). It includes information on the history of its discovery, anatomical features, and topography. The interrelation between the anatomical features of this artery and the presence of neurological pathology in patients is discussed, along with neurosurgical treatment methodologies.

[Etymology of the meninges names in the work «Onomatologia anatomica» by Josef Hyrtl].

The article represents the translation of chapters of the scientific work «Onomatologia anatomica» (1880) by the Austrian anatomist Josef Hyrtl devoted to terminology in the anatomy of the meninges, namely , , , .

[Anatomical and clinical characteristics of the chorda tympani].

The article presents information about the applied and clinical anatomy of the . Brief information is given about the history of its discovery, embryonic and postnatal development, features of anatomy, topography and morphology. The clinical aspects of the lesion and methods of studying the function of the are described.