eng National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Encyclopedic Research The Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine 2706-9990 2707-000X 2009-12-01 1 34 38 10.37068/evu.1.5 article Liubomyr Pyrih In the article, the author justifies the need to create a medical encyclopedia in Ukraine, as there are all the reasons for the emergence of such a fundamental source of knowledge in the history of medicine. https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/article/6 encyclopedia of medicine encyclopedistics 1. Medychna haseta Ukrainy. 1995. Iss. 18. 2. News from Ukraine. 1995. No 34–37.