The problem of a burn injury on the pages of the «Military Medical Journal» in 1823–1872.

An analysis of articles about «Burns» published in the Military Medical Journal between 1823 and 1872 is provided. The publication dynamics are computed based on years and topics. It has been found that abstracts of articles from foreign medical periodicals and monographs are frequently translated and published in journals. The countries in which these works were first published are identified. Fragments of works describe clinical cases, results of treatment and autopsies of the dead, containing statistics of burns in wartime and peacetime, are given. The names of specialists, for various reasons, undeservedly forgotten by now, have been introduced into scientific circulation. The obtained results supplement and clarify our knowledge about the period of the origin of combustiology as a separate area of Russian medicine in the 19th century.