HISTORY OF MEDICINE: VASILY PARMENOVICH OBRAZTSOV
Without exaggeration, every doctor in his practice, a medical student during school days, and any person who is somehow connected with the art of healing, more than once had to hear the name of Vasily Parmenovich Obraztsov. The article presented in chronological order and in a concise form will present facts from the biography, significant discoveries and contributions of the outstanding Russian internist, professor, clinician and classic of Russian medicine Vasily Parmenovich Obraztsov to universal medicine. The surname of V.P.Obraztsov is known to the medical community as one of the founders of the Soviet school of therapists, whose natives were such prominent figures of medicine as F.A.Udintsov, V.N. Ivanov, M.M. Gubergrits. The range of scientific activity of the scientist is quite wide; his works are devoted to the multifaceted problems of the cardiovascular system, diseases of the digestive system, the study of diseases of an infectious nature and consideration of hematology issues. Obraztsov is the author of chest percussion with one finger and a new method of deep sliding palpation of abdominal organs in the diagnosis of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, which to this day is an integral and irreplaceable part of the patient's research. Together with his student N.D. Strazhesko, he quite clearly described the clinic of myocardial infarction, proved the importance of direct auscultation of the heart. From the pen of Obraztsov came out manuals devoted to topical issues of the diagnosis of therapeutic patients at that time.