Zelenkovsky

Zelenkovsky, Yakov Vladimirovich (born in 1872), a prominent ophthalmologist. In 1903 he was elected privat-docent of the department of eye diseases at the Military Medical Academy, and in 1914 he received the chair of eye diseases at the former Psychoneurological Institute, now the State Institute of Medical Knowledge in Leningrad. Z.'s works are predominantly of an experimental nature and are mainly devoted to the pathogenesis of sympathetic inflammation ('On the Pathogenesis of Sympathetic Inflammation,' dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1900), endogenous infection and the application of radium in the therapy of trachoma. In the field of sympathetic inflammation, he created the so-called toxic theory of sympathetic inflammation, which received wide recognition not only in the USSR but also abroad. In 1904, Z. for the first time in Russia and independently of the first research abroad began to apply radium for the treatment of trachoma. Subsequently, this method was continuously perfected by him, and at the present time for this purpose Z. has proposed treatment with radium emanation. Among works of a monographic nature, it is necessary to note the chapter on the microbiology of the normal and diseased eye in the book by Zlatogorov 'The Doctrine of Microorganisms' (part 3, vol. 1, Petrograd, 1918). To the pen of Z. belong 50 scientific works and a number of popular articles on the prevention of eye diseases.