Ivanov

IVANOV, Aleksandr Fedorovich (born in 1867), from 1914 to the present time—professor and director of the clinic for diseases of the ear, throat, and nose at Moscow University; from 1921, in addition, head of the special department for the treatment of laryngeal stenosis, which was opened by the Moscow Health Department at his initiative at the Prosthetic Institute in connection with the appearance of a large number of patients with laryngeal perichondritis on the basis of typhus. After graduating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, he transferred to the Medical Faculty of Moscow University, which he graduated from in 1893. Until 1900, he worked as a surgeon at a railway hospital; at that time, he wrote his dissertation. Then he spent 2 years studying bacteriology under Professor Gabrichevsky. In 1902, he entered the clinic for diseases of the ear, throat, and nose at Moscow University as an assistant. I. took a very active part in the organization and convening of otorhinolaryngological congresses. Since 1923—honorary member and vice-chairman of the Moscow Otorhinolaryngological Society. He has 61 published scientific works. Among them, the most important are: "On the treatment of malaria with methylene blue" (dissertation, 1901); "Opening of the jugular vein bulb in pyemias of aural origin" (Khirurgiya, vol. XVIII, 1905); "On the sensitivity of the larynx" (Ezhemesyachnik ushnykh, nosovykh i gorlovykh bolezney, vol. IV, No. 9, 1911). A whole series of works on the study of the nasal cavity served as an impetus for the development and dissemination of operative methods on the accessory cavities of the nose: "On the question of the radical operation of the frontal sinuses" (Khirurgiya, vol. XVIII, 1905); "On the technique of extranasal operations of the maxillary sinus" (Ezhe

mesyachnik ushnykh, gorlovykh i nosovykh bolezney, vol. XI, No. 1, 1916); "Intranasal surgery of the accessory cavities of the nose" (ibid., vol. IX, Nos. 7–10, 1914). Of especially great scientific and practical importance are his works on the narrowing of the larynx in perichondritis of infectious origin, first touched upon in Russia by the author in the article: "Laryngostomy in perichondritis of the larynx" (Trudy kliniki bolezney ukha, gorla i nosa Imp. mosk. un-ta, vol. III, issue 1, Moscow, 1909).

IVANOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich (born in 1873), professor, a well-known Russian syphilidologist and dermatologist. He graduated in 1897 from the Military Medical Academy; in 1900, he defended his dissertation: "On the doctrine of the histological structure of skin syphilids" (St. Petersburg, 1900), after which he was sent abroad for 2 years, where he worked at the Pasteur Institute, in the clinics and hospitals of Paris (under Fournier, Brocq, Darier, Hallopeau, and others) and under the most prominent dermatologists of Austria and Germany (Neisser, Unna, Neumann, Jadassohn). In 1904, I. received a privat-docent position in the clinic of Prof. T. P. Pavlov at the Military Medical Academy; from 1913 to 1917, he was a professor of the department of skin and venereal diseases at the Psychoneurological Institute; from 1917 to 1924–25, he was a professor of the department of skin and venereal diseases at the 1st Moscow State University, then headed the skin department of the Obukh Institute for the Study of Occupational Diseases in Moscow. In 1919, I. was dean of the medical faculty of the 1st Moscow State University; from 1920 to 1928, he was the scientific secretary of the Scientific Medical Council of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR. In 1912, Ivanov founded the journal "Dermatology," which ceased its existence in connection with the war; since 1924, I. has been the editor of the journal "Russian Bulletin of Dermatology," which he founded. In 1920–1928, I. was the chairman of the Moscow Venereal and Dermatological Society named after Pospelov, an honorary member of many societies, and a corresponding member of the Dermatological Society in Berlin. I. is the author of several dozen works in the field of dermatology and syphilidology, of which the most significant are devoted to multiple skin sarcoids, the fate of leprosy bacilli in the animal organism, the etiology of papulonecrotic tuberculid, and the effect of intravenous salvarsan infusions on the course of syphilis.