Pirogov biography is interesting

Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov-a Russian surgeon, founder of the Russian Anesthesia School, founder of Russian military field surgery. Brief information was born Nikolai in Moscow in the family of Military Treasury Ivan Pirogov on November 13 25. Initial education received at home, after which he studied in a private boarding house for two years, but due to a lack of money in the family, he was forced to leave his studies.

When Nikolai was fourteen years old, he entered the Imperial Moscow University at the Faculty of Medicine. The next ten years Pirogov completely devoted to his studies. Having defended the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he moved to Germany, where he continued his studies at the University of Berlin. The contribution to medicine at the age of twenty -six became the first Russian professor to lead the Department of Theoretical and Practical Surgery of the Imperial Dorpat University.

Five years later, Nikolai Ivanovich received an invitation to head the Department of Surgery at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. In parallel, he taught military surgeons. And during medical practice, he managed to develop several innovative techniques to avoid amputation of the limbs. It is worth noting that one of these techniques called “Pirogov’s operation” is used at present.

And during anatomical studies on frozen corpses, he created a new discipline - topographic anatomy. And these same studies formed the basis of the first anatomical atlas, which later became an indispensable guide for surgeons. To verify the developed methods, Nikolai Ivanovich went to the Caucasus in the army.

In the field, he first applied starch dressing, and also conducted an operation with etheric anesthesia. Subsequently, they performed about ten thousand such surgical interventions. Activities in wartime when the Crimean War began, Pirogov was the chief surgeon of Sevastopol, besieged at that time by the Anglo-French troops. He managed to prevent amputation of the limbs in many soldiers thanks to the introduction of savings tactics of treatment and the use of gypsum dressings.

During the siege of the city, Nikolai Ivanovich taught sisters of mercy and led their work. About their activities of Pirogov wrote “a historical review of the actions of the Crusader Community of the sisters of the care of the wounded and sick in military hospitals in the Crimea and the Kherson province from December 1 to December 1”. Also, during the Crimean war, Nikolai Ivanovich introduced a completely new method of sorting the wounded, which formed the basis of the entire medical and evacuation service of the army.

For the merits in providing assistance to the wounded and sick during this war, Pirogov was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree. After the Crimean war, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to Odessa to the post of trustee of the Odessa training district, and then increased to the secret adviser and trustee of the Kyiv training district. Pirogov tried to reform the current education system.

But this led to a conflict with the authorities, and it was removed from both public service and from academic activity. He was a donkey near Vinnitsa and organized a free hospital there. When the Russo-Turkish war began, Pirogov moved to Bulgaria and organized the treatment of soldiers in military hospitals at once in several cities and villages.

For his activity, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle. Nikolai Ivanovich died on November 23. In less than a month before his death, he made himself a diagnosis - creeping membranous mucous membrane of the cancerous ulcer of the mouth. Similar authors.