Materials for the history of phthisiology in Kazan

The Department of Phthisiology at the Kazan Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians was organized in 1932 by Professor M.I. Mastbaum, a prominent therapist and phthisiologist, on the basis of the Kazan Tuberculosis Institute. Professor. M. I. Mastbaum headed the department till 1939. At that time the leading teachers were M. I. Oyfebakh, N. M. Zakharov, N. K. Sokolova, B. N. Agricolyansky, F. Z. Eisenberg. In subsequent years, M. I. Oyfebakh, having become a professor, became one of the leading phthisiatricians in the country. For more than 20 years he headed the dispensary sector of the Tuberculosis Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.