First Russian endocrinologists

The seventeenth century can be considered a century of important scientific discoveries and studies of great importance for physiology, anatomy and clinic, which marked the beginning of the study of the endocrine glands. In this century, significant for science, which gave in 1628 the discovery of blood circulation by Наrуеу, a well-known anatomist Wharton in 1656 makes a detailed description of the thyroid gland, followed by an equally detailed description of the goitre gland, and Malpighi, in 1686, gives the first detailed instructions on the structure of various glands, defining glands in general as closed cavities with discharge ducts.