Davydovsky

Ippolit Vasilyevich

Soviet pathologist, one of the organizers of the pathology and anatomical service in the country. Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1944), Hero of Socialist Labor (1957).

Childhood

•A great influence on the formation of Ippolit's personality was exerted by his maternal grandmother, Sofiyskaya Lyubov Petrovna, who was a midwife by training.

In 1898, the Davydovskys moved to the city of Rostov in the same province. The reason for the move was the conflict between the father and the local landowner, who deprived the peasant children of the opportunity to use a warm room at school. In Rostov, my father served in the church of Kozma and Demyan, and the family lived in a two-story house No. 56 on Yaroslavskaya Street (now Proletarskaya).

Ippolit was assigned to the first class of the Yaroslavl Provincial Men's Gymnasium. During his studies, he lived for five years with his uncle, a psalmist, sang in the choir of the Kirillo-Afanasyevsky monastery, and in the sixth grade he got a job as a tutor to the son of a rich Yaroslavl man named S. Ya. Lopatin. In addition to his salary, he received food and lodging.

Family background

Ippolit Davydovsky was born on July 20 (August 1), 1887 in the city of Danilov, Yaroslavl province. He was the second child in the family of a local priest Vasily Ippolitovich Davydovsky, who raised six children.

Education

In 1905, Davydovsky became a student at the Medical Faculty of Moscow State University. In 1908 and 1909, he worked as a paramedic in a Rostov hospital, without receiving payment for it, and became interested in microscopy, which became his passion.

In 1911, Davydovsky graduated from the university and worked as a sanitary doctor in Novaya Ladoga, St. Petersburg province, then in the village of Ilinskoe-Khovanskoe, Rostov Uyezd, Yaroslavl Province, as a zemstvo doctor.

After successfully passing the exams for Doctor of Medicine, he became an assistant at the Department of Pathological Anatomy of Moscow University, then a dissector at the Yauza Hospital (City Clinical Hospital No. 23 named after him. Medsantrud), where he worked for more than half a century.

In 1921, Ippolit Vasilyevich Davydovsky defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Pathological anatomy and pathology of typhus". In the same year, he headed the autopsy commission and became a consultant pathologist at the Moscow City Health Department. In 1924, he was approved by the chief pathologist of Moscow, created Wasserman stations, regional laboratories, and introduced forms of the autopsy report. He advocated mandatory registration of biopsies since 1925, and microscopic examination of surgical materials since 1929. He proposed the principle of comparing clinical and anatomical diagnoses, organized conferences and registered medical errors. He was engaged in advanced training of pathologists, headed the Department of Pathological Anatomy at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute from 1930 until the end of his life.

Awards, awards and titles

•Hero of Socialist Labor (May 28, 1957)

•** Two Orders of Lenin** (August 6, 1947, May 28, 1957)

•Order of the Red Banner of

Labor(September 17, 1943)

•Medals

•Lenin Prize (1964)

•Honored Scientist of the RSFSR** (1940)

Interesting fact

•Once, on his anniversary at the Medsantrud Hospital(now City Hospital No. 23 in Moscow), Ippolit Vasilyevich expressed this idea: "Science, pedagogy and dissection are one three-story building with well-connected floors.

Science is located on the top floor: there is a draft here, new ideas and facts fly in and out of the windows. The most significant of them go down to the second floor, where the pedagogy is located. Here they are subjected to critical reflection, since teachers are more familiar with the entire subject as a whole, and they are required by the program of education. Ideas that have withstood discussion settle on the ground floor, in the dissection room, where they are tested by practice and, tested, come out as recommendations in practical healthcare. Their use in the clinic raises new questions and requires new research"