Sergei Korsakoff belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Sergei Korsakoff as Russian psychiatrist (1854-1900).
Sergei Korsakoff was born at Gus-Khrustalny in 1854. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Medical faculty of Moscow University and I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Imperial Moscow University.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Sergei Korsakoff died in 1900, aged 46. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- Held posts at Imperial Moscow University
- Fields: psychiatry
