[Contribution of P.K. Anokhin to the development of clinical physiology]

The paper reviews P. K. Anokhin's works whose physiological studies promoted solution of clinical medical problems. The use of his theory of functional systems enabled one to solve many issues of clinical physiology and practical medicine, such as the nature of pain and the mechanisms of anesthesia, that of narcotic sleep, the pathogenesis of hypertensive disease, the principles of compensation of dysfunctions in the body, medical strategy in the prevention of diseases, etc.