Development of clinical gastroenterology in Kazan Medical Institute

The range of traditional problems of the oldest university of our country - Kazan Medical Institute - includes problems of physiology and pathology of digestive organs. The founders of clinical gastroenterology are widely known in our country Professors S. S. Zimnitsky (the pupil of S. P. Botkin and I. P. Pavlov), M. N. Cheboksarov, A. L. Luria. In 1936 Prof. S.S. Zimnitsky published a monograph "On disorders of secretory activity of gastric glands in terms of functional diagnostics" (clinical lectures for students and doctors). In another work he expounded the original acid "sour" theory of the pathogenesis of gastric ulcers. At about the same time Prof. M. N. Cheboksarov published a work on pyloroduodenitis ("On peptic ulcer without ulcer") and A. L. Luria described irritable stomach syndrome (preulcer phase of the disease).