Abstract
The article focuses on a new view of the social history of medicine through the eyes of patients, not just those of physicians. This vision has not yet gained currency in Early Modern Russia research, although the concept itself was proposed by British historiography back in the 1980s. The article reviews the records of the Apothecary Chancery. They make it possible to see that the pool of customers of health care services in 17th-century Russia was much larger than reported by other sources. In addition, the new approach detects vertical-horizontal bracing cage of communication channels between patients, through which the European medical knowledge moved into Russian society. The article formulates several issues that require further research (using quantitative methods) into the social profile of patients in 17th-century Russia.
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