Krylov

Krylov Vladimir Platonych (1841-1906), known pathologist-anatomist. After receiving his medical degree from the Medico-Surgical Academy in 1868, he was retained at the department of pathological anatomy of the academy in St. Petersburg under the renowned professor M.M. Rudnev. In 1870, K. defended his dissertation on "Studies on pathological-anatomical changes in the lungs of syphilitics" (dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1870). In 1872, K. was elected to the newly established department of pathological anatomy in Kharkov, where he soon emerged as an outstanding organizer of teaching. K. was the first in Russia to introduce practical courses in pathological histology and a special demonstration course that attracted not only students but also numerous physicians. Additionally, he organized autopsies in the hospitals of Kharkov. He created his own school of pathologists-anatomists, which produced outstanding professors (V.K. Vysokovich, A.I. Moiseev, etc.). Among his scientific works, besides descriptions of individual interesting observations, K.'s works on anthropometry and his doctrine of body types, developed both on corpses and on living patients, are of great importance. In this doctrine, which appeared at a time when people were just beginning to speak about constitutions, Krylov clearly outlined constitutional types, establishing the idea of the connection between an individual's body build (constitution) and the characteristics of his connective tissue.