Molchanov, Vasily Ivanovich

MOLCHANOV, Vasily Ivanovich (born 1868), a prominent pediatrician. He graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1894. From 1896 to 1899, he was a resident physician, and from 1904 to 1923, an assistant at the children's clinic of Moscow University. During this period, he undertook several trips abroad and worked in clinics in Germany, Austria, and France. In 1921, he was appointed head of the polyclinic for children's diseases at the Higher Medical School in Moscow, and in 1923, he was elected director of the children's clinic of the 1st Moscow State University.

He has authored over 50 works; the most important of these are: "The Adrenal Glands and Their Changes in Diphtheria" (dissertation, Moscow, 1909); in several works on the nasal vessels of dogs, Molchanov developed his own method for determining the amount of adrenaline in the blood ("On the Question of Determining Adrenaline in the Blood," Proceedings of the Moscow Therapeutic Society, 1911-12, p. 381, Moscow, 1913; "Modern Methods of Determining Adrenaline in the Blood and Their Critical Evaluation," Russkiy Vrach, 1913, No. 3, etc.); "Vagotonia and Sympathicotonia in Scarlet Fever in Children" (Russkiy Vrach, 1916, No. 20); "Clinic and Pathogenesis of White Dermographism in Scarlet Fever" (Russkaya Klinika, Vol. III, No. 9, 1925); "Disorders of Growth and Development in Children" (Moscow, 1927); "Physiological Data of Childhood" (Moscow, 1921); "On Scarlet Fever-like Diseases" (Klinicheskaya Meditsina, 1927, No. 15-16). Molchanov is an editor of the journal "Pediatriya," a co-editor of the "Tsentralny Meditsinskiy Zhurnal," the Great Medical Encyclopedia, and other publications, and an active participant in many scientific societies.