Professor Vasily Parmenovich Obraztsov — a surgeon who became an outstanding therapist and founder of the school of internal medicine at Kiev university (on the 175th anniversary of his birth)

Vasily Parmenovich Obraztsov (1851–1920) was an outstanding Russian physician (pathologist, surgeon, and therapist). He graduated from the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg in 1875. For 25 years (from 1893 to 1918), he was a professor at Vladimir University in Kyiv and head of the Department of Special Pathology and Therapy, and from 1903 to 1918, he also served as the director of the university clinic of internal diseases. Professor Obraztsov introduced several methods for examining patients: deep sliding (methodical) palpation of the abdominal organs, direct auscultation of the heart (which allows for the recognition of gallop rhythm and the third heart sound), and direct percussion with one finger on the organs of the chest and abdominal cavity. In 1910, he diagnosed myocardial infarction. He was the chairman of the Kyiv Physical-Medical Society, the Kyiv Society of Physicians, and founded a school of internal diseases.