Zelenkovsky, Yakov Vladimirovich

ZELENKOVSKY, Yakov Vladimirovich (born 1872), a well-known ophthalmologist. In 1903 he was elected privatdozent for the chair of eye diseases at the Military Medical Academy, and in 1914 he obtained the chair of eye diseases at the former Psychoneurological Institute, now the State Institute of Medical Knowledge in Leningrad. The works of Zelenkovsky are predominantly of an experimental character and are devoted mainly to the pathogenesis of sympathetic inflammation ("On the Pathogenesis of Sympathetic Inflammation", dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1900), endogenous infection, and the use of radium in the therapy of trachoma. In the field of sympathetic inflammation, he created the so-called toxin theory of sympathetic inflammation, which received wide recognition not only in the USSR, but also abroad.

In 1904 Zelenkovsky, for the first time in Russia and independently of the first study abroad, began to use radium for the treatment of trachoma. Subsequently, this method was continuously improved by him, and at present Zelenkovsky has proposed treatment with radium emanation for this purpose. Among the works of a monographic nature, one should note the chapter on the microbiology of the normal and diseased eye in Zlatogorov's book "The Doctrine of Microorganisms" (part 3, issue 1, Petrograd, 1918). In total, Zelenkovsky authored 50 scientific works and a number of popular articles on the prevention of eye diseases.