Main article: Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is a branch of surgery that deals with the surgical treatment of diseases of the human nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system [1] . Article The founders of neurosurgery - a list of the founders of neurosurgery by country.
Content
- 1 UK
- 2 Germany
- 3 Canada
- 4 Portugal
- 5 USSR
- 6 USA
- 7 Turkey
- 8 France
- 9 Sweden
- 10 Literature
- 11 Links
- 12 Notes
UK
- Victor Gorslei (April 14, 1857 - July 16, 1916) is known as the person who performed the first operation to remove a spinal tumor, who made a great contribution to the treatment of myxedema and many neurosurgical diseases.
- William McEwan (June 22, 1848 - March 22, 1924) - known for pioneering work on hernia surgery, bone blocks. First produced and introduced endotracheal anesthesia, pulmonectomy (removal of the lung).
Germany
- Ernst von Bergmann (December 16, 1836, Riga - March 25, 1907, Berlin) is a German surgeon, the founder of asepsis, the author of one of the first classical manuals on the problems of neurosurgery and military field surgery.
- Fedor Krause (March 10, 1857 - September 20, 1937) is a German surgeon, one of the founders of German neurosurgery. It is best known for the use of electrical stimulation in the surgical treatment of epilepsy and an attempt to create a functional map of the cerebral cortex.
- Wilhelm Tönnis (June 16, 1898, Clay, Westphalia, German Empire - September 12, 1978, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) - founder of German neurosurgery, creator of the world's first neurosurgical journal.
- Otfried Förster (German: Otfrid Foerster; November 9, 1873 - June 15, 1941) is a neurologist, one of the founders of German and world neurosurgery. Creator of the Neurological Research Institute in Breslau.
Canada
- Wilder Penfield (Eng. Wilder Graves Penfield, January 26, 1891, Spokane - April 5, 1976, Montreal) is a Canadian neurosurgeon of American origin. He was the first to carry out his first operations for epilepsy.
Portugal
- Egash Moniz (port António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz; pronounced ['ɛgɐʃ mu'niʃ] [Egash Munis], November 29, 1874, Avanka - December 13, 1955, Lisbon) - Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine in 1949 "for the discovery of the therapeutic effect of leukotomy in certain mental illnesses."
USSR
- Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko (May 22 (June 3), 1876, Kamenka village, Nizhnelomovsky district, Penza province - November 11, 1946, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet surgeon, public health organizer, founder of Soviet neurosurgery, chief surgeon of the Red Army in 1937-1946 , academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), academician and first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944-1946), Hero of Socialist Labor (1943), colonel general of the medical service, participant in the Russian-Japanese, First World, Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars , Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1941).
- Joseph Markovich Irger (October 8, 1910, Minsk - March 2, 1982, Moscow) - Soviet neurosurgeon, author of the textbook Neurosurgery.
- Andrye Andreevich Arendt (1890-1965) - doctor of medical sciences, professor, founder of pediatric neurosurgery in the USSR [2] .
- Andrei Lvovich Polenov (April 7 (19), 1871, Moscow - July 19, 1947, Leningrad) - surgeon, traumatologist and neurosurgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1945), honored worker of science of the RSFSR (1936), Stalin Prize laureate (1945). The author of the development of the most important problems of a neurosurgical clinic.
- Vasily Vasilievich Kramer (1876-1935) - neuropathologist, professor, honored worker of science of the RSFSR, creator of the Soviet neurosurgical school, together with N. N. Burdenko, founder of the neurosurgical clinic at the State X-ray Institute (since 1934 the Central Neurosurgical Institute, now the Research Institute of Neurosurgery named after Burdenko)
- Pussep, Ludwig Martinovich (1875-1942), a doctor, one of the founders of Russian neurosurgery.
- Molotkov, Alexey Gavrilovich (1874-1950), student of L. M. Pussep, doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored worker of science of the RSFSR, organizer and first director (1926) of the Scientific and Practical Institute of Surgical Neuropathology
- Fedorov Sergey Petrovich (1869-1936)
- Galkin Vsevolod Semenovich (1898-1957) - chief neurosurgeon of the Navy during the Great Patriotic War
USA
- Walter Dandy (Eng. Walter Edward Dandy; April 6, 1886, Sedalia, Missouri, USA - April 19, 1946, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, and is known for numerous discoveries and innovations, including a description of cerebrospinal fluid circulation, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the introduction of ventriculography and pneumoencephalography into practice, and the creation of the first intensive care unit.
- Harvey Cushing (born Harvey Williams Cushing, April 8, 1869, Cleveland, Ohio, USA - October 7, 1939, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is a well-known neurosurgeon and pioneer of brain surgery. He made a huge contribution to the development of neurosurgery, and he is often called the "father of modern neurosurgery."
Turkey
- Gazi Yashargil (tour: Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil; born July 6, 1925) is a Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon. One of the founders of modern microneurosurgery. Yashargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors using the tools of his own invention.
France
- Thierry de Martel (March 7, 1875, Maxeville, Merth and Moselle - June 14, 1940, Paris) - French surgeon, founder of French neurosurgery, creator of electrotrachean.
Sweden
- Herbert Olivekrona (July 11, 1891 - January 15, 1980) - the founder of the Swedish and one of the founders of world neurosurgery. Known as the man who created the first department of neurosurgery in the world, a teacher of one of the founders of German neurosurgery
Literature
- Irger I.M. Neurosurgery. M .: Medicine, 1982.
- Karlov V.A. Neurology. M., 2002
- LB Likhterman Philosophy of Neurosurgery. M. Institute of Neurosurgery. N.N. Burdenko RAMS, 2014.
- E.N. Kondakov, T.N. Pirskaya. Andrei Lvovich Polenov (Russian) // Russian Neurosurgical Journal. - 2009. - T. 1 , No. 1 . - S. 4 . Archived March 1, 2012.
- I. S. Babchik, prof. Andrei Lvovich Polenov (Obituary) (Russian) // Bulletin of Neurosurgery. - 1948. - No. 1 .