Rein, Fyodor Alexandrovich

Rein, Fyodor Alexandrovich (1866–1925), an outstanding Russian surgeon. Upon graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University, he was retained by A. A. Bobrov at the Institute of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery. Two years later, Rein became an assistant prosector, and two years after that—following the defense of his doctoral dissertation—a prosector of the institute. In 1902, upon the death of A. A. Bobrov, Rein was elected professor of the Department of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery at Moscow University. He remained in this position until the university events of 1911 (the Kasso era), when he, along with a group of professors and docents, left the walls of Moscow University forever. In 1912, Rein was elected chief physician of the Moscow 1st City Hospital, named after N. I. Pirogov, and remained in this position until the end of his life.

Alongside his university and practical medical work, Rein developed extensive activity at the Moscow Women's Courses. Here, he was one of the founders of higher medical education for women in Moscow in general. He was a founding member of the courses from 1900, the permanent dean of the medical faculty he opened, and from 1906, a lecturer, first in the Department of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery, and from 1917, also in the Department of the Faculty Surgical Clinic. Rein took a most active part as a board member and permanent chairman in the Society of Russian Surgeons, the Russian Surgical Society, the Society of Russian Physicians in Memory of N. I. Pirogov, and many other societies and institutions. If one adds to this the special work of organizing congresses, which never bypassed him, and the new areas of public activity that opened up with the October Revolution, it becomes clear why, at the very beginning of the revolution, he was twice put forward as a "Hero of Labor." The Surgical Faculty Clinic of the 2nd Moscow University and some institutions of the Moscow Department of Health are currently associated with the name of Rein.

The most important printed works of Rein: "On Subcutaneous Kidney Injuries" (dissertation, Moscow, 1894; the work is largely experimental); "Preparation of Specimens in Topographic Anatomy" (jointly with F. I. Berezhkin and I. K. Lysenkov, Moscow, 1895); "Warty Growths on the Surface of the Tunica Vaginalis Testis" (Khirurgiya, 1897, No. 4); "Results of Surgical Treatment of Jacksonian Epilepsy and Indications for It" (Khirurgiya, 1897, No. 5); "On Combined Bromethyl-Chloroform Anesthesia" (Khirurgiya, 1899, No. 30); "Short Guide to General Surgery" (Moscow, 1901; went through seven editions); "Lectures on Operative Surgery" (jointly with P. I. Dyakonov and I. K. Lysenkov, Moscow, 1901–05); "Lectures on Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery" (jointly with the same and with N. Napalkov, Vol. I–II, Moscow, 1908). In addition, Rein authored a number of chapters in "Russian Surgery" (a major collective guide, edited by P. Dyakonov, L. Levshin, V. Razumovsky, and M. Subbotin, Vol. I and IV, St. Petersburg, 1903–04) and a large number of articles in various periodicals. Under the editorship of Rein, Tillmanns' "Special Surgery" (Moscow, 1913–14) and Schmieden's "Operative Surgery" (Moscow, 1919) were published in Russian.