Lysenkov

LYSENKOV Nikolai Konstantinovich (born in 1865), anatomist; graduated from Moscow University in 1893, privat-docent of the department of topographical anatomy at Moscow University until 1902, when he was appointed professor of the same department at the newly opened medical faculty in Odessa. In 1917 he moved to the department of normal anatomy. Since 1923 he has headed the Odessa scientific research department of morphology and physiology. Being an artist (works of L. were repeatedly exhibited at picture exhibitions), Lysenkov teaches a course in plastic anatomy at the Institute of Fine Arts. Of Lysenkov's scientific works, his dissertation "Brain hernias and their treatment" (Moscow, 1896) should be noted, where a new (teratoid) theory of their origin was proposed. Together with P. Dyakonov, F. Rejn and N. Napalkov, L. is the author of the well-known "Lectures on Topographical Anatomy and Operative Surgery" (vols. I-II, Moscow, 1908). L. proposed a valuable "Method for preserving anatomical preparations without enclosing them in liquids while maintaining their natural volume" (Russian Doctor, 1916, No. 48). In addition to those mentioned, L. authored about 50 works, including: "Topography and operative surgery of the cranial cavity" (Moscow, 1898); "General anatomy of the organs of movement" (Odessa, 1923); "Plastic anatomy" (Moscow-Leningrad, 1925); "Anatomophysiological foundations of physical culture of the human body" (M.-L., 1927).