Nikolai Dmitrievich Strazhesko is a Soviet therapist.
Place of Birth, Education
He was born on December 17 (29 according to the Gregorian calendar) 1876 in Odessa in the family of a lawyer.
He studied at the Odessa gymnasium, and in 1899 he graduated from the medical faculty of the Kyiv University of St. Volodymyr.
Career
At one time, he worked in the Kyiv City and Oleksandrivska hospitals.
From 1902, he continued to work at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, where, under the guidance of physiologist Ivan Pavlov, he researched the physiology of the intestines. In 1904, he defended his doctoral dissertation.
Since 1904, he held the position of senior resident of the therapeutic clinic of Kyiv University. In particular, during 1907-1919 he was a professor at the Kyiv Women’s Medical Institute, and from 1908 to 1919 – a private assistant professor at the University of Kyiv.
In 1919-1922 he headed the department of the Novorossiysk University in Odessa, and from 1922 he worked at the Kyiv Medical Institute.
He also headed the clinical department of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology, and since 1934 – the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR).
From 1936 to 1941, Strazhesko headed the Ukrainian Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, which he founded.
During the German-Soviet war, he was a consultant to evacuation hospitals and led research at the Central Hospital of the Soviet Army. He was engaged in the problem of wound sepsis and the search for ways to treat it.
He lived in Kyiv, in particular on Yaroslaviv Val Street, and from 1943 to 1952 – on Volodymyrska Street, 48th.
Scientific activity
In 1909, Strazhesko, together with therapist Vasyl Obraztsov, was the first in the world to make a lifetime diagnosis of thrombosis of the vessels of the heart.
The main direction of his research was diseases of the circulatory system. Together with Volodymyr Vasylenko, he developed a classification of circulatory failure.
In 1910, Strazhesko and Obraztsov also published a paper in which they described various clinical forms of myocardial infarction.
In total, Strazhesko is the author of more than a hundred scientific works on the diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases. In particular, in 1924, his monographs on the diagnosis of diseases of the abdominal cavity and stomach were published.
Death/Fatalities
Strazhesko died on June 27, 1952. He was buried at the Lukyanivske cemetery in Kyiv.
Family life
He was married to Natalia Obraztsova.
