Dr. Zakharyin. Pro et contra. Topolyansky V.D.

In the late XX - beginning of the 21st century, a myriad of amazing announcements appeared in the media: all kinds of folk healers notified of their readiness to heal any ailment, certified parapsychologists and members of the Russian Academy of occult sciences promised each patient with complete health restoration, and “hereditary sorcerers "And" Mages "for a small bribe was offered to eliminate" damage "and remove the" evil eye ". An unprecedented flowering of healery and charlatanism testified to the unconditional loss of the prestige of official medicine. Since such a crisis usually ripens over the years, the question is quite appropriate: who was at its origins? The biography of Dr. Zakharyin, the famous in the 19th century, and one of the founders of unrestrained commercialization of medical services and the associated dehumanization of medicine in the 19th century, allows him to answer it to a certain extent. For a wide range of readers.