Feofil Yanovsky

YANOVSKY FEOFIL Gavrilovich (1860-1928), academician, a well-known professor of internal medicine. He graduated from Kiev University in 1884, after which he worked in the clinic of K. G. Tritshel as a resident. In 1889, he defended his dissertation "On the Biology of Typhoid Bacilli." From 1888, he worked as an assistant prosector at the department of physiology

of the department of physiology under

S. I. Chiryev. In

1891, he became a privat-docent. In 1892, he was a prosector at the city Alexander Hospital; he engaged in pathological anatomy until 1898. In 1904, he was elected professor of the hospital clinic at the Novorossiysk University (Odessa).

He

University (Odessa). He

worked in clinics and attended lectures by prominent specialists of Western Europe (Gerhardt, Leyden, Lichtheim, Senator, and others).

In 1905, Yanovsky was elected professor of medical diagnostics at Kiev University and moved to Kiev, and in 1914, he transferred to the chair of the hospital therapeutic clinic. In 1927, Yanovsky was elected a full member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the department of clinical medicine. Yanovsky was not only an excellent, talented clinician and an outstanding professor of clinical medicine, but also a selfless physician, a friend to his patients, and a humanist doctor. He was respected and warmly loved by his colleagues, students, and patients. Yanovsky was one of the most popular physicians not only in Ukraine but in the entire Union. Yanovsky's public activity was manifested in the organization of public assistance for tuberculosis patients, in the organization of sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients in Kiev, in participation in Pirogov congresses, All-Union congresses, and Ukrainian congresses of therapists, and in constant participation in the Society of Physicians of Kiev, of which he was the permanent chairman in his later years. He was often entrusted with keynote reports at congresses. Yanovsky was a co-editor of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, "Vrachebnoye Delo" (Medical Practice), "Kiev Medical Journal," and "Kharkov Medical Journal." Yanovsky published about 40 original scientific works, some of which were printed in foreign languages. His works are devoted mainly to questions of clinical bacteriology, tuberculosis, nephrology, as well as various questions of therapy. Yanovsky's main works: "On the Biology of Typhoid Bacilli" (Kiev, 1889); "Pulmonary Tuberculosis" (Moscow-Petrograd, 1924); "Diagnostics of Kidney Diseases in Connection with Their Pathology" (Kiev, 1927), and others. Through his scientific and teaching activities, Yanovsky contributed significantly to the development of clinical medicine in the USSR. Many of Yanovsky's students hold positions as heads of therapeutic departments in hospitals, and others hold academic chairs.