RHEUMATOLOGY IN THE MEDALLIC ART. MESSAGE 1: RHEUMATISM

Syniachenko O.V.¹, Kovalenko V.M.², Bortkevych O. P.², Gnylorybov A.M.³, Golovach I. Y.⁴, Kuzmina A. P.⁵, Smiyan S. I.⁶, Stanislavchuk М.А. ⁷, Iaremenko O.B.⁸, Yatsyshyn R. I.⁹

• ¹Донецкий национальный медицинский университет, Лиман
• ²ГУ «ННЦ «Институт кардиологии им. Н.Д. Стражеско» НАМН Украины», Киев
• ³Clinic of Modern Rheumatology, Kyiv
• ⁴Center for Clinical and Preventive Medicine GMD, Kiev
• ⁵Dnipro Medical Academy, Krivoy Rog
• ⁶Ternopil Medical University. I.Ya Gorbachevsky
• ⁷National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya
• ⁸O.O. Bohomolets National Medical University, Kyiv
• ⁹Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University

Summary. This paper presents the stages of the rheumatism doctrine development, from the deep antiquity to the present days, and the portrays of the famous physicians who have made an invaluable contribution to the study of acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic disease have become 105 illustrations, the latter were made on materials of the medallic art (a part of the historic discipline of numismatics).