Vreden

Vreden, Roman Romanovich (born in 1867), professor of orthopedics. After graduating in 1890 from the Military Medical Academy and working for 15 years in general surgery in the largest medical institutions, Vreden successively held the positions of physician for advanced studies, assistant, privat-docent (1898), head of the department and clinic of hospital surgery at the Military Medical Academy (1900-02), and head of the faculty surgical clinic at the St. Petersburg Women's Medical Institute (1905-07). During the Russo-Japanese War, Vreden held the responsible position of chief surgeon on the theater of military operations. During this period, Vreden published about 30 works in various fields of surgery, including the only monograph in the Russian language: 'Practical Guide to Field Surgery' (St. Petersburg, 1911), which served as a handbook for a whole generation of field surgeons. Since 1906, Vreden, without breaking ties with general surgery, has devoted himself, mainly, to work in the field of orthopedics, doing much in the scientific development of questions of this young specialty. Since 1906, Vreden has been director of the St. Petersburg Orthopedic Institute. Since 1918, Vreden has been a professor of orthopedics at the Medical Institute in Leningrad, having a chair at the orthopedic department of the State Traumatological Institute, which he has headed since 1924, and for about 20 years has been conducting courses in orthopedics with the institute's students for the advanced training of physicians.

Japanese War, Vreden

During the second period of his activity, Vreden has also published about 30 works, which are devoted to the development of orthopedic questions of a therapeutic, professional and preventive nature. Vreden's many years of experience are recorded in his published work 'Practical Guide to Orthopedics' (Moscow, 1925). Vreden has proposed new operative methods: excision of the foot, arthroplasty with a disinfected pig bladder, condyloclasia in genu varum and many others.