Podvysotskaya, Evgenia Petrovna

Evgenia Petrovna Podvysotskaya (1854-1888) - physician of the Russian Empire .

Evgenia Podvysotskaya was born in 1854; at the end of the gymnasium, she took up the study of medical sciences during the last Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. she acted privately as a nurse of mercy in military temporary hospital no. 45 located in Iasi. Here, E.P. Podvysotskaya earned herself the sincere love and appreciation of all those soldiers and officers whom she had to look after. At the end of the war, Podvysotskaya returned to St. Petersburg and entered the female medical courses, which she graduated in 1885 with honors and with the title of female doctor, she was awarded a scholarship named after N. I. Kozlov . Having arrived at the Prince Oldenburgsky hospital, she was engaged in scientific research in the field of childhood diseases and informed the Society of Pediatric Doctors one of her observations: “ The case of malignant anemia in a child depending on a wide ribbon ” ^{[1] [2]} .

Her main work, which E. Podvysotskaya spent a lot of time and energy: “ On the methods of studying blood cells, especially white ones, to find out their morphological features in various infectious diseases ,” remained unfinished. At the beginning of 1888, her brother, a student at the Military Medical Academy, was poisoned; this caused her so severe psychological trauma that in October of the same year in Kiev, Evgenia Petrovna Podvysotskaya committed suicide ^[2] .