Spizharny

Spizharny Ivan Konstantinovich (1857-1924), a renowned surgeon. In 1877, he was expelled from the Medical-Surgical Academy and exiled to Vyatka Province for participation in the revolutionary movement. He remained in exile for 3 years, where he passed the feldsher examination and worked in remote areas of the province. In 1884, he graduated from Moscow University and was retained as an intern, then as an assistant at the faculty surgical clinic of Professor Sklifosovsky. In 1890, he defended his dissertation "On the doctrine of surgery of the brain and on the process of healing of wounds of this organ" (Moscow, 189i), which still retains scientific and practical significance. From 1891, he was a privat-docent. In 1893, he became an extraordinary professor. From 1899 to 1906, he was a professor of the department of surgical pathology, and from 1906 to 1924, director of the faculty surgical clinic of Moscow University. Spizharny wrote more than 60 scientific works in Russian and German. A significant portion was based on rich experience and personal material. The most important of these are: the monograph "Injuries and surgical diseases of the kidneys" (Russian Surgery, edited by P. Dyakonov, L. Levshin et al., vol. V, P., 1916); "Coxa vara" (Russian Surgical Chronicle, book 2, 1897); "On joint diseases in syringomyelia" (Medical Review, vol. LI, No. 1, 1899); "On malignant lymphomas" (ibidem, vol. LVI, No. 1, 1902); "On the surgery of nerve trunks" (Surgical Archive of Vyalyaminov, book 1, 1914); "Treatment of surgical tuberculosis" (XV Congress of Russian Surgeons, P., 1923); on cranial surgery, plastic surgery of the facial nerve, on nerve suture, surgical treatment of ulcer and stomach cancer, etc. Spizharny proposed a new method of muscle plasty of the abdominal wall in its defects, a new method of complete removal of the tongue by pharyngotomy suprahyoidea. Spizharny was a talented clinician-teacher and enjoyed great authority and love from students. Spizharny actively participated in public life, was a member of the Moscow Soviet, chairman of the Surgical Society, deputy chairman of the Society of Russian Surgeons, member of the Pirogov Society. For his scientific merits, he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow and Saratov Surgical Societies.