Problems of obstetric practice in the publications of the “Penza Gubernskiye Vedomosti” in the second half of the XIX century

Abstract

. Thanks to the zemstvo reform in Russia in the second half of the 19 th century, public medicine began to develop actively. One of the important tools for promoting the ideas of scientific medicine in the social sphere is the periodical press, including the provincial one. This article attempts to analyze the publications of the newspaper “Penza Gubernskiye Vedomosti” devoted to the development of obstetrics in the Penza province in the second half of the XIX century. A great contribution to the popularization of the achievements of scientific medicine in the field