About the choice of the path of development of domestic clinical medicine at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries and once again about the founders of scientific therapy in Russia. A.A. Ostroumov and V.P. Obraztsov

Based on the analysis of literary and archival sources, the authors revise the generally accepted position about three founders of the scientific therapeutic clinic in Russia and propose to consider it to be founded by four outstanding clinicians of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries – S.P. Botkin (Petersburg), G.A. Zakharyin and A.A. Ostroumov (Moscow) and V.P. Obraztsov (Kyiv).