А. F. Samoilov at scientific meetings of the Kazan Clinical Institute in 1921-1924

   Since 1921, at the monthly scientific meetings of the Kazan Clinical Institute, opened in 1920, later renamed the Kazan Institute for the Improvement of Physicians, GIDUV, the head of the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kazan University, a world-famous physiologist, made presentations and debates more than once, one of the creators of the theory of electrocardiography and neuromuscular transmission, Professor A. F. Samoilov. A scientist with an encyclopedic education, he generously shared his knowledge with an audience of doctors, took an active part in the development of the scientific life of the Kazan Clinical Institute. His reports at scientific meetings familiarized physicians with the results of the experimental work of the physiological laboratory of A. F. Samoilov at Kazan University, with the works and scientific position of famous physiologists. Scientific meetings, speeches and the presence of prominent scientists of Kazan, rich in form and content of discussions of reports, scientific discussions have become a school of creative thinking for the young generation of doctors and scientists of the Kazan Clinical Institute — GIDUV. The article for the first time presents materials about these speeches by A. F. Samoilov about G. Helmholtz, J. Loeb, recordings of heart sounds, about the galvanic skin reflex, about setting up a scientific and educational process at universities in the USA and Europe.