[THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE OF THE LAST QUARTER OF XIX-FIRST HALF OF XX CENTURIES. REPORT III. FROM K....

The article presents main scientific discoveries" of the last quarter of XIX-first half of XX centuries ensuring that conceptions of human organism as opened self-regulative system became firmly established in physiology and medicine. It is demonstrated that decisive role in these processes played the transition into biology and medicine of fundamental ideas and concepts of physical chemistry, discovery of immune and endocrine systems, development of new conceptions of principles and concrete mechanisms of nervous regulation of physiologicalfunctions and creative generalization of total aggregate of new factual data by W Cannon in developed by him concept of homeostasis. The world-wide recognition of concept of homeostasis marked definitive establishment ofnew picture of observable reality in medicine.