The article examines the processes of establishing the midwifery profession and the nature of women's medical activities in the Kazan province in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on archival, periodical, and statistical materials, as well as published administrative documentation from the district country councils of the Kazan […]
Keywords: obstetrics
The protection of motherhood and childhood occupied a significant place in the zemstvo medical practice of the late XIX — early XX c. It was “zemsky” doctors who were first to investigate the risk factors for maternal and child health in a Russian village. These included, first of all, the […]