Overlooked Russian greats: Sechenov
Learn the letter ‘С’ with the father of Russian physiology.
“We know nothing of the genesis of diseases, we don’t know why exactly some treatment helps or not,” wrote a young medical student Ivan Sechenov (1829-1905) in his diary in 1850. After becoming a scholar, Sechenov became the one to change it.
His groundbreaking work 'Reflexes of the Brain' (1863) boldly proposed that all mental processes are based on physiology, thereby shaking the foundations of philosophy and psychology.
