Zimnitsky

ZIMNITSKY, Semyon Semyonovich (1873-1927), a prominent clinical therapist; graduated from the Military Medical Academy in 1898 and was retained at the faculty therapeutic clinic of Botkin. In 1901, he defended his dissertation on "The secretory work of gastric glands with bile retention in the body" [the experimental part of this research was carried out under the guidance of I. P. Pavlov (St. Petersburg, 1901)]. For 1902-03, he was sent abroad, where he worked on physiological chemistry, bacteriology, pathological anatomy, and in the leading clinics of Western Europe. In 1904, on the Japanese front, Z. studied the so-called Manchurian typhus and discovered its causative agent. In 1905, Z. was elected privat-docent at the Military Medical Academy. From 1906, Z. was a professor at Kazan University, initially at the department of private pathology and therapy, and then director of the propaedeutic clinic of Kazan University and the clinic of infectious diseases at the Institute for Advanced Medical Studies named after Lenin. In Kazan, Z. developed into an outstanding teacher and original clinician who created new methods of functional research in some areas of internal medicine (Zimnitsky's functional tests for kidneys, Zimnitsky "types" of gastric secretion). A series of special works by Z. and his students on these special methods and their significance for clinical practice were published during the last 10 years of his life. Z. published clinical monographs: "Diseases of the Kidneys" (Moscow, 1923); "On disorders of the secretory activity of the stomach in various pathological conditions from the point of view of functional diagnostics" (M., 1926); "Lectures on heart and kidney diseases" (M., 1927). Z. was repeatedly elected to the presidium of all-Russian and all-Union congresses of therapists and was chairman of the IX congress. Z. was also on the editorial board of many medical journals and co-editor of the therapeutic department of the Great Medical Encyclopedia. Zimnitsky published about 100 printed works.

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Zimnitsky published about 100 printed works.