Vinogradov

Vinogradov, Nikolai Andreevich (1831–1886), a famous clinician-therapist. He was born in the village of Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate; he studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Seminary together with Dobrolyubov. Not having finished it, he entered Moscow University. In 1860 he worked under S. P. Botkin, one of the first students of whom was V. After a foreign mission, when V studied medicine under Virchow, Traube, Frerichs, Skoda, C. Bernard, Trousseau and other prominent scientists, in 1863 he was appointed professor at Kazan University in the department of internal diseases; from 1870 he was director of the faculty therapeutic clinic. V created in Kazan the first scientifically organized clinic and school of therapists. An exceptionally talented diagnostician and teacher, V enjoyed enormous popularity in the Volga region and Siberia, attracting students and doctors to his auditorium. Studies on digitalis, diabetes, saliva, and ozone made V a major scientific figure in his time. A great merit of V is the organization in 1868 of the Society of Physicians of Kazan and the Society for the Assistance of Poor Students of Kazan University. V wrote 52 scientific works; the most important of them are: "On the influence of digitalin on the metamorphosis of the body and the mean pressure in the arteries" ("Meditsinskii Vestnik", 1861 and "Virch. Archiv", Vol. XXII); "On the essence of sugar diabetes" ("Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal", 1862); "On the action of aniline sulfate" ("Meditsinskii Vestnik", 1868, No. 29); "Tumor cerebelli" ("Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta", 1879) and a number of other, predominantly clinical and casuistic works.