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This article is dedicated to two outstanding scientists of the nineteenth century, Ivan Tarchanoff (Ivane Tarkhnishvili) and Maria Manasseina, Russian physiologists worked at the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy. Among the numerous contributions of Tarchanoff was the discovery of the skin galvanic reflex and of the influence of X-rays on phys...
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... and Marie de Manacéine, depending upon the German or French publications and sources, respectively) was one of the first women in Russia (and probably in Europe) to obtain a higher medical education in 1860s. She graduated from female medical courses, receiving the special degree of "woman-doctor," and later the degree of Doctor of Medicine (Fig. 2). She spent six months training in the laboratory of Julius Wiesner at the Polytechnical Institute in Vienna where she studied the process of alcoholic fermentation. While being there, she made a discovery of paramount importance thus becoming a founder of the new science of physiological chemistry, as now biochemistry. She demonstrated ...
