1. Vasily Danilewsky was professor of physiology at University of Kharkiv and then at Kharkiv Medical Institute.
17 Facts About Vasily Danilewsky
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Vasily Danilewsky helped to establish the Danilevsky Institute of Endocrine Pathology Problems, which he directed until his death.
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Vasily Danilewsky was the first to give comprehensive description of nerve impulse in the brain of dogs.
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Vasily Danilewsky worked on the physiological responses of hypnosis in animals and humans.
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Vasily Danilewsky was one of the pioneers in study of insulin action.
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Vasily Danilewsky was the first to investigate systematically on blood parasites of vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
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Vasily Danilewsky is the binomial authority of a number of bird parasites.
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Vasily Danilewsky's paper titled "About Blood Parasites " published in 1884 in the Russian Medicine journal is regarded as the foundation of modern parasitology in bird malaria and other protozoan infections.
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Vasily Danilewsky was born in Kharkiv, and was educated there.
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Vasily Danilewsky graduated from the University of Kharkiv in 1874, and earned his doctoral degree in 1877, at the age of 25, upon the thesis Investigations into the physiology of the brain.
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Vasily Danilewsky was professor of physiology at the University of Kharkiv during 1883 to 1909 and 1917 to 1921.
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Vasily Danilewsky was the first to describe the nerve impulse system in the brain of dogs.
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Vasily Danilewsky helped to establish a new genus Leucocytozoon.
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Vasily Danilewsky was the first to observe the genus in 1889.
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Vasily Danilewsky discovered the symptoms of malaria in birds such as acute anaemia, enlargement of liver and spleen, accumulation of pigments in the blood cells.
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Vasily Danilewsky gave the first clue to the similarity of malaria of birds to that of humans.
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Vasily Danilewsky described and discovered the protozoan Trypanosoma avium in 1885, the first known flagellate protozoan parasite in birds.