(36) "Dictionary" of Maksimovich Ambodic is composed 

 of two parts: Russian-Latin-French and Latin- Russian, which 

 was prefaced with 65 pages of the text, explaining the 

 significance of this first Russian terminological dictionary, 

 contents of anatomy and physiology and even some information 

 about these sciences. 



In "the foreward to the dictionary in general", 

 Maksimovich-Ambodic writes: "During collection of the 

 words, related to my subject of practice, I have been 

 collecting bees for more than 10 years. The major reason 

 was that the Russian words had been collected from various 

 ancient and recent manuscripts belonging to church and 

 civics." 



It is difficult to overestimate the significance of this 

 work as a result of the great quantity of terms created, which 

 were absent in the Russian language. This significance is 

 not diminished by the bulkness of some terms which are not 

 contained in scientific language together with others which 

 are archaic and have disappeared from the language in the 

 process of its evolution. 



The historian of national medicine Ya. A. Chistovich 

 drew a special attention to the significance of "the dic- 

 tionary" of Maksimovich-Ambodic. He noted the unfair relation 

 to Maksimovich on the part of V. M. Richter, who "did not 

 offer him a single line in his biographical History of 

 Medicine in Russia". Fortunately, the voice of this light 

 word was fair and, in defiance of the partial historian, 

 preserved the name of Maksimovich from undeserved oblivion" 

 (Ya. Chistovich. First obstetrician schools in Russia 

 (1754-1785. Essays from history of Russian medical 

 institutions of the 18th century. SPb., 1870, p. 199) (131). 



(37) Khristian Elias Genrikh Knakshtedt was born in 

 Braunshveig in 1749, studied surgery in Bryunn and in 1786 

 travelled to Petersburg, where he was professor of anatomy 

 and surgery at Kalinkinsky hospital. In 1790, due to the 

 work "Beschreibung der trockenen Knochen des menschlichen 

 Korpers" (SPb., 1791) the medical college awarded him the 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine. Knakshtedt died in 1799. In 

 addition to the mentioned works, he also published "Descriptio 

 praeparatorum maximam partem osteologicorum rarissimorum" 



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