Napalkov

Napalkov Nikolai Ivanovich (born in 1868), professor of surgery at the Medical Institute in Rostov-on-Don. Graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1893. From 1900, he was a privat-docent and senior assistant to Professor D'yakonov, being his student and one of his closest collaborators. From 1913, professor of surgery at the clinic of Warsaw University, and from 1915 at the medical faculty of the university in Rostov-on-Don. He is known for developing a number of fundamental chapters of operative and clinical surgery: suturing of the heart and blood vessels (M., 1900), surgery of rectal prolapse (M., 1907), echinococcosis and others. Together with P. D'yakonov, N. Lysenkov, and F. Rejn, N. is the author of the well-known "Lectures on Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery" (v. I-II, M., 1908); jointly with A. Zabludovskii, a guide to the treatment of wounds (M., 1913). In N.'s works, a biological direction is felt, of which he is a fervent supporter in surgery. The majority of Napalkov's works have an experimental basis, which is especially vividly manifested in the works of his students, some of whom already occupy independent departments. N. is an organizer, leader, and member of a number of scientific societies. Chairman of the XIX Congress of Russian Surgeons in Leningrad, honorary chairman of the Don Surgical Society. After the death of P. D'yakonov, he edited the journal "Khirurgiya" (M., 1909-14).