З ІСТОРІЇ ВИНАХІДНИЦТВА БУКОВИНСЬКОГО ДЕРЖАВНОГО МЕДИЧНОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ. I. ВИНАХОДИ ТА НОВОВВЕДЕННЯ ПРОФ. Б.Л. РАДЗІХОВСЬКОГО (1945-1975)
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY IN THE BUKOVINIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY. I. INVENTORIES AND INNOVATIONS MADE BY PROF. B. L. RADZIKHOVSKY (1945-1975)

Summary/Abstract: Іn the proposed article the authors have made the analysis of innovative activity of the doctor of medical sciences, professor, head of the department of ophthalmology in Chernivtsi State Medical Institute Boris Leonidovich Radzihovsky. He was a well-known inventor in Ukraine and the USSR in the field of ophthalmology. Despite the large number of historiographic materials devoted to the professor’s biography and work, the authors of the article were aimed at revealing the less researched pages of his work about his own inventions and rationalizations. The novelty of the study is due to the approaching 75th anniversary of the BDMU and the need to educate future physicians about a creative approach to medical care. The methodology of the article is based on the analysis of archival, bibliographic materials, memoirs. Particular attention was paid to the study of those inventions that were registered by the Committee on Inventions and Discoveries under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In the proposed field, the researchers had found such inventions as a prosthetic indicator, eye tonometers of various designs, blufferostatus, gonioscope, various “alzheimers”, several types of corneal trepings, “ophthalmoperiferioscope”, binocular magnifier, perimeter, conodoscope, dynamo refractor. Among the new research methods, innovations and rational proposals B. L. Radzikhovsky described scotometric and reflex-light tests, innovative use of ethony, trepanoridentclease, ophthalmologic atlas, advanced needle holder, cryoextractor with controlled temperature regimen, extraction of aging cataract with a bag, a new directtal ophthalmoscopy, a new concept for the development of a presbyopia, a new clinical method for the selection of presbyopic glasses, a new pinsetal design, a new operation in relapsing pterygium, proximeter, and others. Conclusions. Research and Innovation made by B. L. Radzihovsky in the field of ophthalmology brought him to the level of a scientist with the famous name. He was published in the leading professional editions, his monographs were published in thousands of copies, inventions were introduced into mass production at the All-Union level and in clinics of Chernivtsi, Dni- propetrovsk, Odessa, Kiev, Ternopil, Yerevan, Tashkent medical institutions, the Institute of Eye Diseases of Helmholtz and the Institute of Vitamins (Moscow) , in the institutes of Leningrad. The scientist was a member of the Board of the All-Union and All-Ukrainian Scientific Societies of Ophthalmologists, the head of the Chernivtsi Regional Scientific Society of Ophthalmologists, and delivered reports at the jubilee scientific conference devoted to the 80th anniversary of academician V. P. Filatov (1955), at the All-Union Conferences of Innovators and Rationalizers in the Field of Ophthalmology (1960, 1964), and others like that B. L. Radzihovsky was awarded the Order of the "Red Banner of Labor", with medals, was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of Ukraine. In current time, calling on his monograph and methodology can be found in dissertations on ophthalmology, in medical encyclopedias, in textbooks for students of medical universities, in scientific works. At the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the founding of the journal "Herald of Ophthalmology" the name of Professor B. L. Radzihovsky was included in the list of authors who made a significant contribution to the study of glaucoma. Biography of the B. L. Radzihovsky, as well as the vocation on his work, we find on the sites of various publishing houses, medical and pharmacological web-sites.

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