Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881) was a famous surgeon and
participant of the Crimean war and the first defense of Sevastopol 1854-55.
Military medicine owes the creation of scientific basis of the operative
medical care to Pirogov.
In 1854-1855 during the war Pirogov went
to the fields of battle twice and personally took part in arranging
of medical care and operated the injured. He also initiated attracting
women-voluntary nurses to taking care of the injured. Pirogov was the
first who introduced such care in the Russian army.
He founded the "Krestodvizhenskaya society of nurses" in October 1854
far before famous Florence Nightingale appeared in the fields of the battle.
Pirogov was the first who applied anesthesia during the surgery, which
in fact was a bandage soaked in ether. He invented a plaster to immobilize
the patients with fractures that had to be transported. Pirogov widely used
iodine to cleanse wounds.
Pirogov was the first who suggested that the injured were sorted out that
was the origin of medical and evacuation provision of the injured.
This method enabled him to cope with chaotic flow of the injured to the
field hospitals. He considered that at war administration was more
important then medicine.
What made the name of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov immortal was his method
of "iced saw cuts" that he practiced to study the topography of internal.
He fixed the anatomy with the surgery, which provided the progress of
the future surgery.
He was an advocate of preventive medicine. His famous words were:
"I believe in hygiene".
Pirogov was not only a talented surgeon, who managed to make 10 amputations
for 2 hours on the filed hospitals during the war, but also a prominent
scientist, whose works are world-known, professor, a great public figure
and a patriot. He is Russian national pride and his name will be
inscribed in the history of Russia for ever.
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