Bobrov

BOBROV, Alexander Alekseevich (1850-1904), a well-known surgeon, professor at Moscow University. In 1874, he graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with distinction. In 1875, he was confirmed as an intern at the surgical hospital clinic of Professor Novatsky. In 1877, he worked on the front during the Russo-Turkish War. Then he worked at the department of topographic anatomy of Professor Vorontsovsky (and was on a scientific mission abroad). In 1884, he was elected and confirmed in the position of associate professor at the department of operative surgery and surgical anatomy of Moscow University, and in 1885, he was confirmed as professor of the same department. From 1884, B. served as a consultant at the surgical department of the Basmannaya Hospital. Here B. began to give lectures on clinical surgery for the first time and attracted many listeners. In 1892, B. received a surgical clinic (40 beds) at the Novo-Yekaterininskaya Hospital and began to teach a course in parallel with the faculty surgical clinic of Professor N. V. Sklifosovsky. Finally, in 1893, he received (after Professor Sklifosovsky moved to St. Petersburg) the faculty surgical clinic, where he remained professor until his death. B. was an excellent teacher, and his lectures, which were very substantive, were always presented in a clear, simple form. His textbooks "On dislocations and fractures," "Course of operative surgery" and "Topographic anatomy" went through several editions. B.'s services to Russian surgery were very great, but no less significant were they in public life. B. was a permanent active member of the Society of Russian Physicians in memory of N. I. Pirogov, a member of the editorial board of the well-known "Zemstvo-Medical Collections," a very active member of the Moscow Surgical Society, and one of the main initiators and organizers of congresses of Russian surgeons. But the largest public undertaking of B. was his drawing of public attention to the Crimea and the creation there (in Alupka) of a sanatorium bearing his name to this day for the treatment of children with bone tuberculosis.