Stages of development of the doctrine of non-tuberculous lung diseases in the works of Soviet physicians

Over the past decades, advances in the study of normal and pathological physiology of respiration have had a beneficial effect on the development of diagnostics of respiratory diseases, and especially functional diagnostics. The functional concept is insufficiency, which, along with the clinical and anatomical characteristics of the process, has become an organic part of the diagnosis in the field of circulatory diseases, only in the last two to three decades has it begun to enter clinical use, in the diagnosis of respiratory diseases. This was largely facilitated by new laboratory (blood gas research) and instrumental methods (spirometry, spirography, pneumotachometry, etc.). On the basis of the physiological teachings of I.P. Pavlov, our ideas about the regulatory role of the nervous system in relation to the respiratory apparatus, in particular in pathological conditions, are becoming more and more obvious and specific.