Gundobin

GUNDOBIN, Nikolai Petrovich (1860-1908), a prominent pediatrician, professor at the Military Medical Academy. After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1885, he was retained as an intern in the children's clinic of this university under its founder, Professor Tolsky. In 1891, he defended his dissertation on "The Structure of the Intestine in Children" (Moscow, 1891) and was elected privat-docent at the Military Medical Academy, and then received the chair of children's diseases there. Gundobin was an indefatigable worker in the field of pediatrics, which became an independent discipline only in his time.

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One of the founders of the pre-war "Society for Combating Child Mortality in Russia," G. did much to promote the widespread idea of combating child mortality, contributing to the establishment of departments of the society in the provinces. Among the most significant scientific and literary works of Gundobin are: "School Hygiene" (St. Petersburg, 1905), "General and Private Therapy of Diseases of Childhood" (1st ed., St. Petersburg, 1896), "Upbringing and Treatment of the Child up to 7 Years of Age" (1st ed., St. Petersburg, 1907), "Child Mortality in Russia and Measures to Combat It" (St. Petersburg, 1906). A monumental work by G. is "Features of Childhood" (St. Petersburg, 1906), a classic, unique work that presents a summary of numerous works on the pathology, histology, and physiology of the child that emerged from G.'s clinic, with large additions by G. himself (the book was translated into German and went through two editions in Germany). From G.'s school came a number of major Russian pediatricians who now hold chairs of children's diseases in the USSR.