SADOVSKY

SADOVSKY Pyotr Timofeyevich (1866-1912), noted Russian gynecologist. Graduated from the Military Medical Academy in 1889 with distinction and remained for advanced study in the clinic of Professor K. Slavyansky. In 1895, he was sent abroad by the Academy to Paris to study the then new vaginal method of uterine removal. In 1897 he received the title of privat-docent, and in 1905 was elected professor at the Women's Medical Institute in St. Petersburg, where he served until his death.

In addition to his pedagogical activities, where he proved himself an excellent lecturer and teacher, he also distinguished himself in public activities. In 1898, as head of a Red Cross detachment, he worked during the epidemic during the famine in the Kazan province; he was among the founders of the Medical Mutual Aid Society and was repeatedly elected as vice chairman; he was a member of the Obstetrical-Gynecological Society and was elected vice chairman of the International Congress of Gynecologists in St. Petersburg, as well as vice chairman at the Pirogov Congress. Among his printed scientific works, the following deserve mention: "Flap method in the operation of atresia ani vestibularis" (St. Petersburg, 1890); "On the question of the role of epithelium in the pathogenesis of retention cysts of the Fallopian tube in its atresia" (dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1895), as well as a series of works on the method of spread of microbes from the uterine cavity; on the method of Duayen's vaginal hysterectomy; on the method of suturing lesions of the ureters; on parasitism as a biological phenomenon in childbirth, etc. Being an excellent operator, he greatly contributed to the then developing surgical technique in gynecology.