GAUSMAN

GAUSMAN, Fedor Oskarovich (b. 1868), professor, Doctor honoris causa of Kyiv University, director of the hospital-therapy clinic at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. After graduating from the University of Dorpat in 1895, he served for five years as a military doctor. In 1901-1902, he worked in Berlin as an extra assistant to Professor Ewald. From 1903 to 1909, he worked in Orel, where, based on the Obraztsov method of palpation of the large intestine, he developed a method of topographic deep palpation of the sections of the gastrointestinal tract. Gausman published a classic monograph (Die methodische Intestinalpalpation mittels der topographischen Gleit- u. Tiefenpalpation, B., 1910). He was the first to describe (4 years before Wilms) the mobile cecum. In 1909-11, G. worked as prosector and head of the chemical-bacteriological laboratory at the Tulsk Provincial Zemstvo Hospital. Here G. developed the question of syphilis of the stomach (Die syphilitischen Tumoren der Oberbauchgegend, insbesondere des Magens, u. ihre Diagnostizierbarkeit, B., 1911). In 1911-13, G. worked as an assistant to Professor Marcius in Rostock, and in 1913-14 in the clinic of Kraus in Berlin, where he gave a course for doctors on palpation diagnostics. In 1914-24, G. was in Moscow, where in 1918 he was elected privat-docent at the 1st Moscow University. In 1924, he was elected to the chair of hospital-therapy clinic in Minsk. In addition to the works mentioned, Gausman proposed a widely available and highly sensitive reaction for urobilin. Gausman published about 100 works in total.