Belonovsky, Georgy Dmitrievich

BELONOVSKY, Georgy Dmitrievich, Professor of Bacteriology at the State Institute for Medical Postgraduate Training (Leningrad); born in 1875. Graduated from the Military Medical Academy in 1899, and in 1902 defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine: "On the Influence of Specific Hemolytic Serum on Artificial and Natural Anemia." From 1908, a privat-docent; from March 1917, a professor. Received his initial bacteriological education under the guidance of S. S. Botkin and V. I. Isaev. From 1905 to 1907, he worked in the laboratories of: Metchnikoff (Paris), Morgenroth (Berlin), Salkowski (Berlin), Maragliano (Genoa), Wright (London). Belonovsky took part in combating epidemics: scurvy (1899, Volga region), cholera (1908, 1909, 1910, Kronstadt), plague (1917, Trabzon), typhus (1919–20), etc. Belonovsky has over 60 scientific works, including a number of works on the experimental investigation of plague. Belonovsky described the first experience of using anti-typhoid vaccinations in Russia: "Anti-typhoid Vaccinations in France and England and the Experience of Their Application in Russia" ("Russky Vrach," 1913, No. 47). Other most important works of Belonovsky: 1) Influence du ferment lactique sur la flore intestinale des souris, Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, v. XXI, 1907; 2) Zur Frage der Wirkung steriler Nahrung auf das

Darmflora, Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten, B. XLIV, 1907; 3) Essai de préparation de sérum antiintestinal, Comptes rendus de la Société de biologie, 1907; 4) Zur Frage der Beziehungen d. Toxine zu d. Zellenelementen des Organismus, Biochemische Zeitschrift, B. V, 1907; 5) Über die Produkte des Bacterium coli commune in Symbiose mit Milchsäurebacillen, Biochemische Zeitschrift, B. VI, 1907; 6) Über die Säureproduktion der Bulgarischen milchsauren Mikroben, Milchwirtschaftliches Zentralblatt, 1910; 7) Belonovsky G. D. and Krasovsky N. V., On the Question of the Variability of the Agglutination Ability of the Typhoid Bacillus, "Vrachebnaya Gazeta," 1914, No. 44; 8) Experience with Autovaccinotherapy (Autosputotherapy) in Tuberculosis, "Vrachebnaya Gazeta," 1922, No. 2; 9) Über die Rolle des Komplements, Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung, B. LIII, 1927; 10) Belonovsky G. D. and Müller A. A., Experience with Local Prophylactic Immunization Against Scarlet Fever, "Vrachebnaya Gazeta," 1927, No. 1; 11) Attempt at Immunization of Leukocyte Cultures Against Tuberculosis Using BCG, "Mikrobiologichesky Zhurnal," 1928, etc.