1. Nikolay Pirogov is credited with the invention of various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
19 Facts About Nikolay Pirogov
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Nikolay Pirogov learned to read in several languages as a child.
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Nikolay Pirogov's father died in 1824, leaving his family destitute.
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Nikolay Pirogov visited the University of Gottingen and on his return served as a professor at the University of Dorpat.
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In October 1840 Nikolay Pirogov took up an appointment as professor of surgery at the Imperial Academy of Military Medicine in Saint Petersburg, and undertook three years of military service in this period.
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Nikolay Pirogov first used ether as an anaesthetic in 1847, and investigated cholera from 1848.
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Nikolay Pirogov worked as an army surgeon in the Crimean War, arriving in Simferopol on 11 December 1854.
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Nikolay Pirogov followed the work of Louis-Joseph Seutin in introducing plaster casts for setting broken bones, and developed a new osteoplastic method for amputation of the foot, known as the "Pirogov amputation".
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Nikolay Pirogov encouraged female volunteers as an organised corps of nurses, the Khrestovozdvizhenskaya at the Saint Petersburg Charity Encyclopedia community of nurses established by Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna in 1854.
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Nikolay Pirogov wrote an influential paper on the problems of pedagogy, arguing for the education of the poor, non-Russians, and women.
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Nikolay Pirogov argued against early specialisation, and for the development of secondary schools.
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Nikolay Pirogov last appeared in public on 24 May 1881 and died later that year at his Vishnya estate, Podolia Governorate.
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Nikolay Pirogov's body is preserved using embalming techniques he himself developed, and rests in a church in Vinnytsia.
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Nikolay Pirogov died at the age of 24 from complications after the birth of her second son.
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Nikolay Pirogov married for the second time in June 1850 to Aleksandra Antonovna, nee Baroness Bistrom, with whom he had no children.
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Nikolay Pirogov was from 1847 corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received in 1844,1851 and 1860 the Demidov Prize by the academy.
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Nikolay Pirogov was appointed honorary citizen of Moscow in 1881.
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The Nikolay Pirogov Society was founded four years after his death, which aims for better medical training and treatment in Russia.
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The Nikolay Pirogov Museum is located in Vinnytsia, Ukraine at his former estate and clinic.