Pozharsky

POZHARSKY Iosif Fomich (1875-1919) was born in the city of Kharkov, where he also graduated in 1901 from the medical faculty. Since 1900, he specialized in pathological anatomy under Professor V. P. Krylov. In 1904, at the Military Medical Academy, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 1905-1906 years - he was sent abroad (worked under Prof. F. Marchand, H. Chiari, etc.). In 1906, he was assistant prosector at the department of pathological anatomy of the Novorossiysk University. In 1907, he became a docent. In 1910, he was elected professor at the department of pathological anatomy of the Warsaw University. 1915-18 years - dean of the medical faculty. 1915-19 years - chairman of the Medical Society at the Warsaw University and chairman of the student medical society. After the evacuation of the Warsaw University in 1915, P. for 2 years created in Rostov-on-Don the first in the USSR by size and equipment pathological-anatomical institute. During 18 years of scientific life, P. wrote over 40 works and a major three-volume work "Fundamentals of Pathological Anatomy" (2nd and 3rd ed., vols. 1_3, Rostov n/D.-M.-P., 1916-1923). The main works are devoted to elastic tissue of the heart ventricles (1904), heteroplastic formation of bone tissue (Kharkov, dissertation, 1904), pathological anatomy of bubonic plague (1911). Posthumously published works of P. on anatomical changes in Spanish flu.