Rudnev, Mikhail Matveyevich

RUDNEV, Mikhail Matveyevich (1837–1878), an outstanding pathologist, one of the founders of pathological anatomy as a science in our country. He graduated from the Medico-Surgical Academy in 1860, worked for 2 years under Virchow, and from 1865 was a prosector, and from 1867 a professor of pathological anatomy at the Medico-Surgical Academy. A talented teacher, he was the first to introduce practical classes for students. In 1870–1873, he published the first journal in our country dedicated to questions of theoretical medicine ("Journal of Normal and Pathological Histology, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine"). In his scientific work, he upheld the views of Virchow. He had many students, among whom the most prominent were: K. N. Vinogradov, N. P. Ivanovsky, V. P. Krylov, N. F. Slavyansky, and N. V. Uskov. Rudnev's main works include: "On Tubercular Formations on Serous Membranes" (dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1867), on the use of osmic acid, on amyloidosis, on trichinosis in Russia, on cerebrospinal meningitis, on visceral syphilis, on the pathological anatomy of cholera, on general

histology of cancer, and on vegetable parasites in the stomach. Rudnev compiled a textbook on general pathology (1873).