April 6, 1836
Born Nikolai Sklifosovsky — a surgeon and innovative scientist. He introduced antiseptic and aseptic treatment methods into surgery, which resulted in fewer post-operative deaths in the country.
...The environment around us, the atmospheric air, is the source of wound complications. This idea, supported by advances in mycology, led to the anti-putrefactive method of wound treatment, which constitutes one of the greatest advances in surgery.
He was born on a farm Quarantine — the name came from the quarantine station. He was the ninth child of a Dubossary police clerk. When in Dubossary There was a cholera outbreak, and the father sent the youngest of his 12 children to an Odessa orphanage.
В Odessa, Ukraine Kolya graduated from high school with honors. He entered medical school at Moscow University. He studied under a surgeon. Fedor Inozemtsev, who performed the first surgery in Russia using ether anesthesia. He was an excellent student. Despite the fact that his profession required perseverance, he fainted during his first operation, performed on a patient without anesthesia.
He graduated from university with honors. Returning to Odessa, he worked for several years as a resident in the surgical department of the city hospital. When offered the position of chief physician, he declined. Practical work was more expensive.
At 28, he defended his doctorate. At 30, he went abroad, working in Germany, France, England, and Scotland. As a field surgeon, he participated in four military campaigns. He improved treatment methods for gunshot wounds and fractures: one of them, the "Sklifosovsky lock," bears his name.
From 1880 he headed the Department of Surgery in Moscow UniversityWith his help, universities began teaching dentistry and maxillofacial surgery as separate disciplines.
He placed a great deal of emphasis on hygiene—in his clinic, he required everyone to wear clean gowns, wash their hands, and disinfect instruments. Sepsis and other post-operative complications dropped sharply.
He perceived his work as a service to society. He raised funds to establish a clinical campus at the university. He advocated for the training of women in medicine.
Died in 1904.