10 Facts About Sergey Botkin

Sergey Petrovich Botkin was a Russian clinician, therapist, and activist, one of the founders of modern Russian medical science and education.

Sergey Botkin introduced triage, pathological anatomy, and post mortem diagnostics into Russian medical practice.

Sergey Botkin made his first steps towards education in the private school of Ennes.

In 1855 Sergey Botkin graduated from the university with honors and received a Doctor of Medicine degree.

Sergey Botkin subsequently went abroad, seeking to improve his skills and was able to gain valuable professional experience working at some of the most prestigious institutions on the continent.

Sergey Botkin was the first to suggest that catarrhal jaundice was caused by an infection.

In early 1860s, Sergey Botkin was assigned as an advising member of the medical board of the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In 1886, Sergey Botkin headed the National Public Health Commission, created to investigate the unusually high mortality rates prevalent in Russia, both in times of peace and war.

Sergey Botkin's brother Vasily was a prominent writer and his brother Mikhail was a painter and well-known art collector.

Sergey Petrovich Botkin died on 12 December 1889, in Menton, France, from liver disease, which was complicated by a heart ailment.