Roman Albertovich Luria

LURIA, Roman Albertovich (born 1874), a prominent therapist. He graduated from the medical faculty of Kazan University in 1897. For a number of years, he was in charge of the therapeutic department of the Kazan Provincial Zemstvo Hospital. In 1902, he published his dissertation, "On the Role of the Sensory Nerves of the Diaphragm in the Innervation of Respiration" (Kazan). He studied internal diseases, and in German clinics, specifically diseases of the digestive apparatus. He has over 60 works on various questions of the clinic of internal diseases, especially of the digestive apparatus. Among them are a number of studies on the chronoscopy of the stomach, the treatment of diarrhea and dysentery; a number of works are devoted to the clinic of malaria and syphilis of the internal organs. Luria published

the monograph "Edema Disease" (Kazan, 1922). In addition, from the works of Luria, the following were published as separate editions: "Syphilis and the Stomach" (Moscow, 1928; translated into German); "The Old and the New in the Doctrine of Chronic Gastritis" (Moscow, 1929); "On Syphilitic Diseases of the Internal Organs" (Kazan, 1930). About 100 works by his students have come out of Luria's clinic. In 1920, Luria organized the Lenin Institute for the Advanced Training of Physicians in Kazan and has served as the permanent director of this institute and the clinic of internal diseases attached to it. Thanks to the energy of Luria, this institute has developed into one of the largest scientific-research and scientific-pedagogical institutions in the East.

Note: The original text contained a split word in the first paragraph ("zhe" and "ludka") which has been reconstructed as "zheludka" (stomach) and the text has been merged into the corresponding paragraphs.