FROM THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. PROFESSOR I. A. KASSIRSKY

Levin Vitaliy Il'ich, Honoured scientist of Russia, doctor of engineering sciences, professor, sub-department of mathematics, Penza State Technological University, (1a Baydukova lane, Penza, Russia), vilevin@mail.ru

61(091)

The article reads about the scientific biography of the distinguished medical scientist, teacher and remarkable person Iosif Abramovich Kassirsky. The author presents an in-depth study of scientific, pedagogical, organizational and medical activity. The work point out scientist’s important role in creation of soviet scientific and medical school in the field of hematology and tropical diseases. Great attention is paid to the description of an outstanding, vivid human personality of I. A. Kassirsky. The author adduces multiple reminiscences by scientist’s colleagues, friends, apprentices and relatives, lively reconstituting various aspects of his life and activity. The author analyzed main features of scientist’s research and pedagogical activety in the field of medicine, his scientific organizational and public activity. Humanity of I. A. Kassirsky is of especially remarkable. It is the humanity that is mostly recalled by his contemporaries. In conclusion the author gives general evaluation of the scientific level of works by Iosif Abramovich Kassirsky in the field of medicine and the scientific school established by him. The article includes a detailed list of scientist’s main publications [1–24].

I. A. Kassirsky, scientist, doctor, human, medicine, diagnostics, scientific school, personality of the scientist.

1. Burova L. F., Kassirskiy I. A. Tropicheskie bolezni Sredney Azii [Tropical diseases of Middle Asia]. Moscow; Tashkent, 1931.
2. Kassirskiy I. A. Ocherki gigieny zharkogo klimata v usloviyakh Sredney Azii [Essays on hygene of hot climate in conditions of Middle Asia]. Tashkent, 1935.
3. Kassirskiy I. A. Ronal'd Ross i malyariynaya problema [Ronald Ross and malaria problem]. Moscow; Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1938.
4. Kassirskiy I. A. Zhan-Domenik Larrey i skoraya pomoshch' na voyne [Jean-Dominique Larrey and emergency at war]. Moscow, 1939.
5. Kassirskiy I. A. Ocherki ratsional'noy terapii malyarii i nekotorykh drugikh bolezney [Essays on rational therapy of malaria and ceveral other diseases]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1939.
6. Kassirskiy I. A. Perelivanie krovi [Blood transfusion]. Moscow; Leningrad: Medgiz, 1940.
7. Kassirskiy I. A. I. P. Pavlov i ego znachenie v meditsine [Pavlov and his importance in medicine]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1941.
8. Kassirskiy I. A. Klinika i terapiya malyarii [Clinics and therapy of malaria]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1946.
9. Kassirskiy I. A., Alekseev G. A. Bolezni krovi i krovetvornoy sistemy [Blood and hematopoietic system diseases]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1948.
10. Kassirskiy I. A. Problemy i uchenye [Problems and teaching]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1949.
11. Kassirskiy I. A. Infektsionnyy gepatit [Viral hepatitis]. Moscow: TsIU, 1949.
12. Kassirskiy I. A. Leykemoidnye reaktsii [Leukemoid response]. Moscow: TsIU, 1951.
13. Kassirskiy I. A. Ocherki ratsional'noy khimioterapii [Essays on rational chemotherapy]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1951.
14. Kassirskiy I. A., Alekseev G. A. Klinicheskaya gematologiya [Clinical hepatology]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1955.
15. Kassirskiy I. A. Lektsii o revmatizme [Lections on rheumatism]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1956.
16. Kassirskiy I. A., Plotnikov N. N. Bolezni zharkikh stran [Diseases of hot countries]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1959.
17. Kassirskiy I. A., Kassirskiy G. I. Auskul'tativnaya simptomatika priobretennykh porokov serdtsa [Auscultatory symptomatology of acquired valvular diseases]. Moscow: TsIU, 1961.
18. Kassirskiy I. A., Alekseev G. A. Klinicheskaya gematologiya [Clinical hematology]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1962.
19. Kassirskiy I. A., Kassirskiy G. I. Ocherki i rasskazy [Essays and stories]. Moscow: Russkiy put', 2012.
20. Vorob'ev A. I. I. A. Kassirskiy i ego vklad v meditsinu [I.A. Kassirsky and his contribution to medicine]. Moscow: Meditsina, 1988.
21. I. A. Kassirskiy i vremya. Vospominaniya uchenikov i druzey [I.A. Kassirsky and time. Memoirs of apprantices and friends]. Ed. A. I. Vorob'ev. Moscow: N'yudiamed-AO, 1988.
22. Akademik I. A. Kassirskiy. K 110-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya [Academician I. A. Kassirsky. 110th anniversary]. Ed. G. I. Kassirskiy. Moscow: Sputnik+, 2007.
23. Govzman L. Svet dalekoy zvezdy [Light of the distant star]. Moscow, 2010.
24. Kassirskiy G. I. Akademik I. A. Kassirskiy. Zhizn', tvorchestvo, vrachevanie [Academician I. A. Kassirsky. Life, works, medical activity]. Moscow: Russkiy put', 2011.