Minor, Lazar Solomonovich

MINOR, Lazar Solomonovich (born 1855), an outstanding clinical neuropathologist, together with Kozhevnikov, Roth, Korsakov, Rossolimo, and others, was a founder of the "Moscow" school of neuropathologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1927, he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist. After graduating from the medical faculty in Moscow (1879), he studied under Kozhevnikov, Charcot, Westphal, and Mendel. In 1882, he defended his dissertation: "On the question of the significance of the corpus striatum" (Moscow).

From 1884, he was a privat-docent at the university. From 1910, he was a professor and director of the nervous clinic he organized at the 2nd Moscow State University, formerly the Moscow Women's Higher Courses (since 1930, the 2nd Medical Institute). He was a consultant for many Moscow hospitals. He edited a number of specialized publications in Russian and German, for example, together with E. Flatau and L. Jacobson, the extensive collective "Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie des Nervensystems" (Abt. 1-3, Berlin, 1903). He was an honorary member of many scientific societies in the USSR and abroad (Parisian anatomical, psychiatric, and neurological, German, Philadelphia, Estonian, and other neurological societies). He was an honorary member of the first World Congress of Neurology in Bern, which was to take place in 1931. Minor's works are predominantly clinical in nature, but also concern histological technique and the histology of the nervous system. A number of clinical forms and symptoms are associated with his name: Minor's central hematomyelia, Minor's epiconus, Minor's phenomenon in sciatica (see) (Deutsche med. Wochenschr., 1898, No. 23-24), Minor's point in cervical injuries of the sympathetic nerve, and the doctrine of polypathies.

He wrote extensively on alcoholism, epilepsy, and occupational diseases of the nervous system. Of his 160 works, in addition to those mentioned above, the following should be noted: "Central Hematomyelia" (Collection of articles on neuropathology and psychiatry, dedicated to A. I. Kozhevnikov, Moscow, 1890); "On the localization and significance of so-called bone or vibratory sensitivity" (Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, Vol. II, 1902); "On traumatic injuries of the n. sympathici and some cranial nerves during the Japanese war" (ibid., Vol. VII, 1907); "Numbers and observations from the field of alcoholism" (ibid., Vol. X, 1910); "Hallux valgus hemiplegicorum, materials for the study of combinoses and diatheses" (ibid., Vol. XI, 1911); "Electrical resistance of the skin in military-traumatic lesions of the n. sympathici" (ibid., Vol. XV, 1915); and works on essential hereditary tremor (the last of which in Russkaya Klinika, 1929, No. 68).