STROGANOV

STROGANOV Vasily Vasilyevich (born in 1857), prominent Russian professor of obstetrics. Graduated from the Military Medical Academy in 1882, then worked in Chernigov province. In 1885 he became an assistant at the former Midwifery Institute (now the Central Research Obstetric-Gynecological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health) and remained there until 1889, when he moved to Klin, the institute for advanced medical training, where he stayed until 1912; from 1896 he also taught at the former Midwifery Institute. In 1893 S. received his doctorate in medicine, in 1896 he became a docent at the Klin institute, in the same year he was granted the title of professor at the former Midwifery Institute, and in 1900 he was elected honorary professor of the Klin institute. From 1893 to 1921 he also directed the Krasovsky Maternity Hospital, and at present is a consultant at various obstetric institutions in Leningrad. He left teaching at the Klin institute in 1912, and at the Central Obstetric-Gynecological Institute in 1926. S. has written 120 scientific works on various branches of obstetrics, many of which are known abroad. A considerable portion of his works is devoted to the treatment of eclampsia and the so-called method proposed by him, which consists mainly of the combined use of narcotics (see Eclampsia). This method gained recognition beyond the borders of the Union but did not receive universal acceptance. Among his other works, it is necessary to mention S.'s dissertation on bacteriological investigation of the sexual canal of the woman in various periods of her life with inclusion of materials on the question of the body's self-defense against pathogenic microbes from the side of the sexual canal, works on the harm of general baths for parturients, on early rising after childbirth, on ruptures of the uterus, on placenta previa, on pubiotomy, on the possible preservation of infant corpses in a sterile state, and others. The 'Collection of Obstetric Problems' by Stroganov, which went through 4 editions, is widely known. In recent years, S. has published a monograph on the most important complications of pregnancy and childbirth. S. is a talented teacher and teacher of hundreds of doctors and midwives. Much time was also devoted by S. to public activity, to questions of public health related to the organization of obstetric care; S. participated in many congresses, former Pirogovsky, obstetric-gynecological and international, was chairman of the international cancer conference in Brussels. S. is a full and honorary member of many scientific societies in the Union, a member of the permanent Board of the All-Union Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and was repeatedly elected honorary chairman at congresses; in 1912 he was elected an honorary member of the Irish Medical Academy, in 1914 of the Belgian and in 1925 of the Edinburgh obstetric-gynecological societies.