Kerion Celsi

KERION CELSI, see Trichophytia. KERNIG Vladimir Mikhailovich (1840-1917), a well-known therapist. Soon after graduating from the medical faculty in Dorpat, he began working in St. Petersburg at the Obukhovskaya Hospital (1865-1911). From 1890 to 1911, he was the chief physician of the women's Obukhovskaya Hospital, where as a brilliant diagnostician and clinician he created a school of numerous students who came to him from all over Russia. K. was a pioneer of higher women's medical education in Russia, participating in the organization of the Higher Women's Medical Courses, which were later transformed into the Women's Medical Institute. Kernig left over 20 scientific works.* Of these, the most important is the description of flexion contracture in the knee joint in meningitis, known as Kernig's symptom (see).