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N. EGOROV writes : The Medical Section of the Allunion Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries is strengthening the scientific bonds of Soviet medical circles with medical institutions, organizations and scientific workers in other countries. At the last plenary meeting of this Section it was announced that the Section has received many requests from medical institutes, societies and individual scientific men wishing to establish or revive connexions broken off by the War. The Section has taken steps to make this possible. It has done much to forward abroad books and articles written by members of medical institutes in the U.S.S.R. and to send greetings from Soviet scientific men to various journals and to workers in the field of medicine. The Section has also dealt with numerous requests from Russian men of science for books and articles not available in Moscow to be sent from Great Britain and the United States. To make widely known the work of Soviet medical institutes, clinics and scientific workers, the Section regularly publishes the Medical Chronicle, which reflects current war-time problems of Soviet medicine. It has also selected for foreign countries scientific films on various medical subjects such as “Physiology and Morphology of Bacteria”, “Microscopic Study of Living Tissue” and “Physiology and Pathology of the Heart”, in the production of which eminent Soviet men of science took part. Nicholas Semashko stated that the Section receives publications issued by the Medical Society of America and a War-time Medical Review from Great Britain published by the Anglo-Soviet Committee of Medicine. All this literature is handed over to the Central Medical Library and to libraries of various medical institutes, so that wide use can be made of it. Addresses of members of the Section on the report of Prof. Nicholas Semashko discussed the strengthening of scientific ties with medical organizations and individuals abroad. The Section aims at facilitating the exchange of experience in the medical sciences and increased collaboration of Soviet, British and American medical workers. Nicholas Burdenko, of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., was presented at the meeting with a complete set of surgical instruments sent to him from Philadelphia.
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Soviet Medical and Scientific Men. Nature 151, 444 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151444b0
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