The problems of national health development through the prism of the formation of “medical case” from antiquity to the presents. Particular attention is given to main milestones in the history of Russian medicine, associated with the formation of a public charity system, based on mercy and charity, the emergence and transformation of the elements of public and private healthcare with special features inherent in them
the history of development of public health, the orders of public charity, military hospitals, public and private hospitals and pharmacies, almshouses, orphanages, Apothecary order, Medical Office, Medical College, Public Order charity, Zemstvo medicine, insurance medicine