Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo as Russian physician.
Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo was born at Odesa in 1860. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The recorded fields of work are neurology.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo died in 1928, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Fields: neurology
