F. G. Yanovsky, the Classic of National Medicine

Abstract

In Russia, the elite of therapy took shape in the first decades of XX century. Feofil Gavrilovich Yanovsky, professor of the St. Vladimir Kiev University was one of elite leaders. F. G. Yanovsky, being a classic of national clinical medicine, was renowned for mastery of diagnostics. In particular, it is considered that he was one of first among physicians in Russia who set up an antemortem diagnosis of lung infarction (1902). F. G. Yanovsky was a broad-scoped therapist that is confirmed by his research studies in bacteriology and acute infections, diagnostic, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, functional diagnostic and treatment of kidney diseases, pathology of digestive organs and blood circulation system, development of techniques of immediate examination of patient and curative preventive application of resort factors. Together with V. P. Obraztsov he was at the head of the third, after the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy and the Moscow University, Scientific Center of National therapy organized in the St. Vladimir Kiev University. F. G. Yanovsky was the first Soviet clinicians elected as academician of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Science. He established prominent and brilliant clinical school, including such his followers as academicians V. N. Ivanov (Kiev), V. Kh. Vasilenko and B. E. Votchal (Moscow). The exceptional popularity of F. G. Yanovsky was conditioned by especially attractive moral cast of mind of this physician. Ht was Judge of Honor of the Kiev Society of Physicians and he was ready in any time of day and night without a hitch and gratis to treat all needed persons. When F. G. Yanovsky passed away, tenth of thousands of Kiev citizen pay their last tribute to him. All was covered by white lilies and burial service was implemented according Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Judaic ceremonies. In Russia, such funeral was not the first one but it became the last one: no more physicians were buried in such a way.