Background
FILIPPOVICH, Artemiy was born in 1901 in village Yevlichi, Belarus.
FILIPPOVICH, Artemiy was born in 1901 in village Yevlichi, Belarus.
1917 graduated school for medical orderlies. 1926 graduated Leningrad. Medicine Institute.
1917-1921 medical orderly in Yevlichi. 1926-1939 country dr in Belorussian, then clinic intern and assistant professor, Minsk Med Institute. 1939-1950 head, Chair of Infectious Diseases.
Izhevsk Med Institute. 1951-1961 head, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Minsk Med Institute. Member, cd council, journal Zdravookhraneniye Belorussii.
Described clinical aspects of recurrent typhus. Studied bile-pigment metabolism and its dynamics in typhus, scarlet fever, measles, malaria, leptospirosis and serum disease. Established efficacy of osarsol (a Soviet preparation against whipworm) in the treatment of tertian malaria.
Described the five phases of septic sore throat and proved that the hematogenic function is rapidly restored during the period of convalescence. Proved that the continuous method is better than the cyclic when treating typhus with syntomycin. Detected the presence of Q-fever in Belorussian and described its course.
Used combination of antibiotics, sulphonamidcs and dysentery vaccine to treat chronic dysentery. Was one of first group of Soviet sci to detect and describe serous meningitis and its transmission by ticks in L'dmur- liya. Described the epidemiology and clinical aspects of brucellosis in Udmurtia, Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Vologda Oblast, establishing that this disease is not transmitted from cattle to sheep, goats and hogs and that it is an independent nosological unit in humans.
Wrote over 60 works on the clinical aspects and epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1960.