Holland and France, friend of Diderot and Galvetsy, known as 

 author of many physical works (122) . 



(32) Dzh. Needham in his "History of Embryology" 

 prefaced the list of the literature sources used by him with 

 a list of works, which he could not obtain. As "less 

 important works on the history of embryology" Needham also 

 mentioned Bezeke's book. It is difficult to decide, on 

 which basis the English historian of embryology considered 

 Bezeke's book less important, if we take into consideration 

 that according to his confession, he never saw it (122) . 



(33) Two extracts compose the contents of the already 

 mentioned book of 1797 (in it, as stated, were present an 

 essay on the history of a hypothesis about the conception 

 and development of animals and in addition, "History of the 

 origin of division of the natural bodies into three kingdoms") 

 The third extract appeared in the form of a separate small 

 volume in the year of the author's death (J. M. G. Bezeke. 

 Allgemeine Geschichte der Naturgeschichte in dem Zeitraume 

 von Erschaffung der Welt bis auf das Jahr N. C. G. 1791. 

 Mitau, 1802, XXXII±154S) . 



For more details about the works of Bezeke see the 

 article by the author of the present book in "Trudy instituta 

 istoriii estestvoznaniya i tekhniki, V.IV, 1955" (Works of 

 the Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technique) 

 (123). 



(34) Matvei Khristianovich Peken was born in Petersburg, 

 he studied medicine in Ien, where he obtained the degree of 

 Doctor of Medicine (according to other data-- in Gettingen) . 

 When he returned back to Russia he worked as the admiralty 

 doctor, read a course of obstetrics in Petersburg hospitals. 

 From 1793, he travelled to Moscow, where he read pathology 

 and organized the first therapeutic clinic with ten beds (124) 



(35) Nestor Maksimovich Maksimovich-Ambodic (1744-1812) 

 finished Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy, studied medicine in 

 Strasburg, where he defended a doctor dissertation about 

 "human liver" (1755). At Petersburg admiralty hospital, he 

 read obstetrics and wrote a lot of works and manual books. 

 The second part of the family (Ambodic) was written by himself 

 in connection with accord of patronymic and family (127) . 



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