Nikolay Sklifosovsky
Nikolay Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky | |
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![]() Sklifosovsky in 1899 | |
Born | [1] | March 25, 1836
Died | November 30, 1904[1] | (aged 68)
Education | Doctor of Science (1863)[1] |
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1859) |
Known for | first application of the aseptic method in surgery; first use of local anesthesia |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine |
Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
Thesis | About the bloody tumor (О кровяной околоматочной опухоли)[1] |
Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (Russian: Николай Васильевич Склифосовский; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1836 — 13 December [O.S. 30 November] 1904) was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole.
Legacy[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Nikolai_Sklifosovsky_2012_stamp_of_Transnistria2.jpg)
young Sklifosovsky on a 2012 stamp of Transnistria
The Moscow Institute of Emergency First Aid, often abbreviated as Sklif, bears his name since 1923.[1] In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.
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