(Braunschweig, 1785) and Latin-German terminological medical 

 dictionary "Erklarung lateinischen Worter, welche zur 

 Geliederungslehre Physiologie; Wundarzneywissenschaft und... 

 Ordnung" (Braunschw., 1784, 2nd edition, SPb., 1788). In 

 the title page of the latter he called himself Russian surgeon 

 and ordinary teacher of studies about bones and all their 

 diseases at the imperial surgical school in Petersburg. 



To the work of Knakshtedt mentioned in the text 

 "Anatomical description of the monster" an invitation to 

 Medico-surgical school is addressed to "all famous persons 

 and members of medico- surgical sciences" to attend the meeting 

 "near Kalinkinsky bridge at Ekateringofskaya and listen to 

 "some works and speeches by some teachers and students. 

 The meeting was proposed to take place on January 7 at 

 10 a.m. (131) . 



(38) Petr Andr^evich Zagorskii (1761-1845) is the one 

 who founded the first Russian anatomical school . After 

 teaching at the Cheringovsky college he went to the hospital 

 school in Petersburg. After he finished there, he worked for 

 three years as prosecutor Petersburg medico-surgical school 

 with professor N. P. Karpinsky. From 1799 to 1833, he was 

 junior assistant, and then professor in medico-surgical 

 school, and from 1805 up to the end of his life he was a 

 member of the Academy of Sciences. Zagorskii organized 

 excellent anatomical museums at the medico-surgical school 

 and Academy of Sciences, published the first Russian manual 

 book on anatomy and a great number of works on anatomy, 

 teratology and different medical topics. 



(38a) The same opinion on the origin of monsters was 

 also supported by the academician N. Ya. Ozeretskovskii, who 

 informed the Academy on April 25, 17991 about two cases of 

 double monsters in the preparations of the academic museum of 

 natural history. One of these cases was united twins (union 

 in the region of the upper part of the chest, both partners 



1. N. Ozeretskovskii. De doubus foetibus humanis, 



monstrosis. Nova Acta Acad. Sc. imp. Petropol., 14. 

 1805, p. 367-372. The article of Ozeretskovskii was 

 published in the same volume of Nova Acta Academiae 

 Petropolitanae , where the above mentioned report of 

 Zagorskii was also published. 



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