[Professor Lev Fyodorovich Ilyin (140th anniversary of the birth)]

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries significant contribution to the approval authority of the Department of Pharmacy, Military Medical Academy introduced Professor Leo F. Ilyin (1871-1937)--a major domestic scholar and social activist, organizer of military medical supplies, physician by training, pharmacist, dedicated chemist and educator. Research, first launched in Russia by L.F. Ilyin, served as the basis for the production of morsulus--one of the most widely used dosage forms. Many works of L.F. Ilyin, his fellow workers and students are devoted to studying the structure of the active principles, properties and pharmacological action of wild and cultivated medicinal plants in Russia: herbs of marsh gilled, leaves of lobelia and May lily, roots and rootstocks of serpent grass, all-heal, pieplant, licorice, etc.