From Past to Future: Filatov Museum of the History of Medicine

In the second part of the article, based on the documents of the State Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR 1925-1940, information on the chronology of the development in our country of a specialized state medical institution in the field of care for patients with disorders of the endocrine glands is disclosed. Materials on the deployment of the industry in Soviet Russia for the production and export of endocrine preparations from the endocrine glands of animals, including domestic insulin for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, are of considerable value. The efforts of the state, the medical industry, and the State Institute of Experimental Endocrinology in the fight against one of the ominous mass diseases in the RSFSR and the USSR — endemic goiter, which in modern vocabulary is called iodine deficiency diseases, are revealed. Of great scientific interest is the work of the Insulin and Endocrine Committees and commissions established by them, including the creation of standards in the production of domestic insulin preparations, as well as the Goiter Commission under the Scientific Medical Council of the People's Commissariat of Health on the organization of the first epidemiological expeditions to different regions of the country to identify pathological iodine deficiency is of interest, which became an important historical stage on the way to saving the nation from cretinism and other thyroid diseases foci of goiter. The research conducted on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria on the introduction of the so-called Swiss model for overcoming. Many aspects currently being implemented in federal and regional programs for the prevention and treatment of iodine deficiency diseases were first worked out in the 20-30s of the last century.