On the medical library of the Kronstadt Naval Hospital

A brief essay on the history of the library of the Kronstadt Naval Hospital - one of the unique collections of medical publications of the XVIII-XX centuries. Currently, the library has two funds: medical and fiction. The medical fund has more than 13 thousand books, starting with the editions of the XVIII century. When working with the foundation, the authors of the article managed to reconstruct the composition of the personal libraries of some of the hospital doctors. Modern doctors find in the library descriptions of treatments that have not lost their relevance. Today the library of the Kronstadt Naval Hospital is of interest both to medical readers and researchers of the history of Russian medicine.

history of military medicine, medical science in Russia in the XIX-XX centuries, medical library