«Since the wounded soldier has become the subject of medical care, surgical science has been improved on the battlefield...» (Ernst Bergmann, founder of asepsis and Military Medical Journal)

The great surgeon Ernst Bergmann (1836–1907) – the founder of asepsis and the author of classical works, the Russian scientist, head of the surgical department in Dorpat until the end of the 1870s. This article analyzes Bergmann’s publications in the Military Medical Journal. Of great interest are his «Military Surgical Aphorisms», written as a report on the results of work on the battlefields of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866 and published in 1867. As a military doctor of the Russian army, Bergmann took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 and the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878, published articles about this in the Military Medical Journal. Subsequently, Bergmann’s publications in German scientific journals more than once became the subject of reviews on the pages of the Military Medical Journal.