Fyodor Hausmann

HAUSMANN, Fyodor Oskarovich (born 1868), professor, Doctor of Medicine honoris causa of Kyiv University, director of the hospital therapeutic clinic of the Belarusian State University in Minsk. Upon graduating from Dorpat University in 1895, he served for five years as a military physician. In 1901-1902 he worked in Berlin as a supernumerary assistant to Professor Ewald. From 1903 to 1909 he worked in Orel, where, building upon the principles of Obraztsov's method of palpation of the large intestine using sliding palpation, he developed a method of topographic deep palpation of sections of the gastrointestinal tract. Hausmann published a classic monograph (Die methodische Intestinalpalpation mittels der topographischen Gleit- u. Tiefenpalpation, B., 1910). He was the first to describe (4 years before Wilms) caecum mobile. In 1909-1911 Hausmann worked as a prosector and head of the chemical-bacteriological laboratory at the Tula Provincial Zemsky Hospital. Here Hausmann worked on the question of syphilis of the stomach (Die syphilitischen Tumoren der Ober

bauchgegend, insbesondere des Magens, u. ihre Diagnostizierbarkeit, B., 1911). In 1911-1913 Hausmann worked as an assistant to Professor Martius in Rostock, and in 1913-1914 in Kraus's clinic in Berlin, where he lectured to physicians on palpatory diagnostics. In 1914-1924 Hausmann was in Moscow, where in 1918 he was elected privat-docent of the First Moscow University. In 1924 he was elected to the chair of the hospital therapeutic clinic in Minsk. In addition to the aforementioned works, Hausmann proposed a widely accessible and highly sensitive reaction for urobilin. In total, Hausmann published about 100 works.