Vladimir Mysh

MYSH, Vladimir Mikhailovich (born 1873), a well-known surgeon. Upon graduating from the Military Medical Academy in 1895, he was retained by competition at the clinic of Nikolai Velyaminov to prepare for a professorship. In 1899, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Herniae vaginales inguinales in Childhood" (St. Petersburg). In 1901, he won the competition for the chair of general surgery at Tomsk University. In 1909, he transferred to the chair of the faculty surgical clinic at the same university, which he still holds. Since 1928, he has simultaneously headed the chair of surgery at the Tomsk Institute for the Advanced Training of Physicians. Mysh has written over 70 works addressing the most interesting questions of modern surgery. Special attention is merited by Mysh's works on the surgery of the central nervous system ("Puncture of the Corpus Callosum as a Decompressive Operation," Nov. khir. arkh., vol. V, bk. 2, no. 18, 1924; "Horsley's Operation in the Treatment of Cortical Varieties of Epilepsy and Athetosis," Vestn. khir., 1927, bk. 24, and a number of others).

Much attention was paid by Mysh and his pupils to diseases of the digestive tract. In addition to the dissertations and monographs of his pupils on this subject, Mysh personally spoke at congresses and in print on diseases of the stomach and appendix. Bone diseases have attracted Mysh's attention, but particular interest has been shown by Mysh and his clinic in diseases of the urogenital apparatus. In 1916, Mysh published the article "Chronic Painful Nephritis Without and With Changes in the Urine" (Med. obozr., nos. 1–2), the first work in the Russian language on this subject. In addition, Mysh has spoken in print and at congresses on a number of urological issues. In 1926, he published "Clinical Lectures on Urology" (Tomsk), provided with an index of Russian urological literature for 1900–1925. At the 20th All-Union Congress of Surgeons, Mysh was the rapporteur on the programmatic issue of uronephrosis. Occupying a prominent position in Siberia as a surgeon and teacher, Mysh created a school from which a number of pupils have emerged who hold responsible positions as practical surgeons and independent chairs in medical higher education institutions (Mukhadze in Tiflis, V. S. Levit in Moscow, and others).