13
june
2024
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Laying flowers at the monument of Professor F.I. Pasternatsky
On the eve of the Day of the Medical Worker, the chief physician of the healthcare institution "Clinical Maternity Hospital of the Minsk region" Pyotr Leonidovich Mosko, together with a member of the Permanent Commission of the Council of the Republic on Legislation and State Construction, the chief physician of the healthcare institution "Minsk Central Regional Clinical Hospital" Garik Tarielovich Barsamyan, laid flowers in the village of Krupitsa of the Minsk region to the monument in honor of Professor F.I.Pasternatsky.
Fedor Ignatievich Pasternatsky, a native of Belarus (1845-1902), graduated from the Medical Faculty of St. Vladimir's University of Kiev in 1871. After defending his doctoral dissertation in 1888, he was appointed a private associate professor, in 1891 he was elected an extraordinary professor, and in 1893 he was appointed an ordinary professor and head of the Department of Hospital Therapy at the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. More than 150 scientific papers have been published under his leadership. He described (1907) a symptom characteristic of some kidney diseases ("Pasternatsky's symptom"). He was one of the first to explore the Caucasian Mineral Waters and the climatic features of the Black Sea coast of Russia. Initiator and organizer of the All-Russian Hygienic Exhibition (1894) and the 1st All-Russian Congress on Climatology, Hydrobiology and Balneology (1898), one of the founders of Russian balneology and balneology.
Fyodor Ignatievich spent the last years of his life in the village of Pyatevshchyna, Minsk county, where he provided medical care to residents of nearby villages. A year before his death, Fyodor Ignatievich made a great trip to the Belarusian Polesie for the purpose of a medical and topographic survey of the region. The scientist collected extensive material, which he did not have time to prepare for publication – premature death prevented it. F. I. Pasternatsky died on August 7 (20), 1902 from chronic interstitial nephritis.
On the basis of Professor Pasternatsky's medical practice, the Pyatevshchinsky Hospital was established, later transformed into the Krupitskaya outpatient clinic, on the territory of which a monument was erected in honor of an outstanding Russian scientist and practitioner.