Chernyshev

Chernyshev Stepan Petrovich (born in 1862), neuropathologist and therapist. After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University (1888), Ch. in 1893 defended his dissertation on the topic: "On the topography of the white and gray matter of the spinal cord," thus becoming one of the first Russian researchers in the field of the central nervous system. From 1894 for 35 years Ch. taught at the First Moscow State University a course on the anatomy of the central nervous system, first as a privat-docent and then as a professor. At the same time, Ch. was an ordinor at the Yauza Hospital (until 1907), and then senior physician at the First City Hospital named after Pirogov, in which latter, in addition, until 1828 he was the permanent chairman of scientific conferences. Ch. was and is a member of many scientific societies; to his pen belong more than 30 scientific works, of which the most valuable are: the dissertation (see above), "The epidemic of relapsing fever for 1893-94 according to the material of the Yauza Hospital," "Pathological anatomy of the comatose form of malaria" (1902) and "Weight of the human brain" (1913); in addition, Ch. edited and published "Guide to the study of the anatomy of the central nervous system" by Prof. Obersteiner (1897) and was co-editor of the journal "Medical Notes" (1897-99).