Nikolay Sklifosovsky

Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (Russian: Николай Васильевич Склифосовский; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1836 13 December [O.S. 30 November] 1904) was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky
Sklifosovsky in 1899
Born(1836-03-25)25 March 1836[1]
Died30 November 1904(1904-11-30) (aged 68)[1]
near Poltava, Russian Empire[1]
EducationDoctor of Science (1863)[1]
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1859)
Known forfirst application of the aseptic method in surgery;
first use of local anesthesia
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsImperial Moscow University
ThesisAbout the bloody periutrical tumor (О кровяной околоматочной опухоли)[1]

Legacy

Young Sklifosovsky on a 2012 stamp of Transnistria

The Moscow Institute of Emergency First Aid, often abbreviated as Sklif, has borne his name since 1923.[1]

In 1870, on the recommendation of Pirogov, another prominent Russian surgeon, Sklifosovsky was invited to head the department of surgery at Kyiv University. However, he did not stay in Kyiv for long: soon he went to war again, this time to the theater of the Franco-Prussian war.

About 10,000 wounded passed through Sklifosovskyi. The doctors and nurses, among whom was the surgeon's wife Sofya Oleksandrivna, supported Mykola Vasyliovych's strength by occasionally pouring a few sips of wine into his mouth between separate operations.[2]

In 2001 the Central Bank of Transnistria arranged for the minting of a silver coin featuring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of commemorative coins honoring The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.

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