Kazan medical journalKazan medical journal0368-48142587-9359Eco-Vector5764010.17816/kazmj57640Research ArticleThe role of the stomach in blood formationIstominaK. V.info@eco-vector.comHospital therapeutic clinic (doctor head. Associate professor E. Yu. Makhlin) Saratov State Medical Institute and the therapeutic department of the 1st Soviet hospital named after V. I. Lenin (director M. V. Mikhelson)130719383476476550601202106012021Copyright © 2021, Istomina K.V.2021<p>In 1850 Fenwick first drew attention to the relationship between the amount of hemoglobin (Hb) and erythrocytes in peripheral blood, on the one hand, and gastric secretion, on the other. But his observations concerned only pernicious anemia, in which the author noted the frequent presence of achilia and considered the latter as a symptom of atrophy of the gastric mucosa, anemia as a consequence of achilia.</p>Kazan Medical archiveКазанский медицинский архив[1. Булатов, Сов. вр. ж., № 23, 1937.][2. Гукасян, Терап. арх.9 т. XV, в. 3, 1937.][3. Кузнецов, Сов. вр. ж., № 23, 1937.][4. Розенблюм, Сапиро и Галкина, Кл. мед., т. XI, № 13— 14, 1933.][5. Шведский, Терап. арх., т. XII, в. 6, 1934.]