К 225 - ЛЕТИЮ ВИДНОГО ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОГО ВРАЧА ТЕРАПЕВТА КАРЛА КАРЛОВИЧА ЗЕЙДЛИЦА

Abstract

Introduction. 2023 marks the 225th anniversary of the birth of Karl Karlovich Seidlitz, a prominent Russian scientist, internal medicine doctor, professor of the Medical and Surgical Academy, one of the reformers of medical education and the founder of the clinical and anatomical method in Russian medicine, the founder of the department of the Faculty academic therapeutic Clinic, a close friend and biographer of the poet V.A. Zhukovsky. Аim. Is to show the role of K.K. Seidlitz in the development of clinical medicine and education in the Russian Empire. The appeal to his memory in the jubilee year allows us to preserve the continuity of generations. Material and methods. The study uses general methodological approaches for historical and medical research. The analysis of literary sources on the history of medicine is carried out, articles and materials revealing the priority and importance of the works of K.K. Seidlitz for medical science and the history of culture of Russia are studied. Results and discussion. The contribution of K.K. Seidlitz to the fight against infectious diseases in the Russian Empire is analyzed. K.K. Seidlitz was one of the first to describe the clinic and epidemiology of leptospirosis. Having headed the therapeutic clinic of the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical (now Military Medical) Academy, he was one of the first in Russia to introduce differential diagnostics, methods of physical research, created an outpatient clinic and a laboratory at the clinic for conducting research using microscopes discharged from Paris, introduced pathoanatomical studies of deceased patients, etc. Conclusion. In modern literature, the name of K.K. Seidlitz is primarily associated with the first detailed in modern literature, the name of K.K. Seidlitz is primarily associated with the first detailed systematized biography of the poet V.A. Zhukovsky written by him. However, K.K. Seidlitz has great merits in the field of the development of clinical medicine in Russia and its teaching, which the reader should be reminded of.