Volkov

VOLKOV, Mikhail Matveevich (1861-1913), known clinical therapist, graduated from the natural sciences division of the physics-mathematics faculty of St. Petersburg University and the Military Medical Academy, where he was retained for further study in S.P. Botkin's clinic. From 1898-1900, V. was chief physician of the St. Eugene Hospital (now named after Sverdlov). From 1900, he was professor at the Women's Medical Institute, heading the faculty therapy clinic. V. actively participated in the organization of the Women's Medical Institute during its establishment and served as assistant director of this institute from 1900 to 1904. For many years, V. edited and published the 'Botkin Hospital Gazette.' A student of Botkin, V., thanks to his outstanding talent, became the greatest independent clinical scientist. An anthropologist in the broad sense, V. built clinical medicine on the basis of precise anatomical and physiological knowledge, being the founder in Russian medicine of the doctrine of constitution. In this, V. considered the functional approach to the patient and its strict individualization as the basis of clinical thinking. V.'s principal works: 1) 'On the passive mobility of the heart in normal and pathological conditions,' St. Petersburg, 1889; 2) Wolkow M. u. Baumann E., 'Uber das Wesen der Alkaptonurie,' Zeitschrift fur physiologische Chemie, Band XV, 1891; 3) 'Ober das Verhalten der degenerativen und progressiven Vorgange in der Leber bei Arsenikvergiftung,' Virchows Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie, B. CXXVII, 1892; 4) 'Recherches experimentales sur la toxicite du vibrion avicide,' Archives de medecine experimental et d'anatomie pathologique, t. IV, № 5, 1892; 5) Kostennitsch J. et Wolkow M., 'Recherches sur le developpement du tubercule experimental,' ibid., t. IV, № 6, 1892; 6) V. together with S.N. Delitsin, 'Pathogenesis of the mobile kidney,' St. Petersburg, 1897 (translated into German); 7) 'On physiological contemplation in clinical medicine,' St. Petersburg, 1904 (translated into German); 8) 'Clinical Studies,' St. Petersburg, 1904; 9) 'Zur Frage der sogen. Hypoplasie des Aortensystems,' XXVII Congress for Internal Medicine in Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 1910, and others.