Background
KOGAN, Boris was born in 1896 in Zhitomir. Son of a medical orderly.
KOGAN, Boris was born in 1896 in Zhitomir. Son of a medical orderly.
1923 graduate Medical Faculty, 1st Moscow University.
1917-1919 did Party work in Ukraine. Chairman, Zhitomir Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Delegation All-Russian Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Conference and 9th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress.
1923-1931 intern and assistant professor, Moscow Institute of Social and Occupational Diseases', 1931-1939 consultant, intern, assistant professor, then associate professor, Chair of Hospital Therapy Clinic, 1st Moscow Medical Institute. 1939-1967 department head, Chair of Hospital Therapy Clinic, 1st Moscow Medical Institute at Moscow Clinical Hospital Nr 67. Board member, All-Russian and Moscow Sciences Therapists’ Social.
Presidium member, All-Russian Cardiological Social. Member, Learned Medical Council, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Minister of Health. 1930-1940 co-founder and deputy chairman, All-Union Therapists’ Social.
Deputy ed, journal Terapevticheskiy arkhiv: co-ed, internal diseases section, Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed) and Malaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Small Medical Encyclopedia). Delivered papers at 13th- 15th AllUnion and lst-2nd All-Russian Therapists’ Congresses. 1960 also delivered paper at lilt Congress on Diseases of the Thoracic Organs, Vienna.
Devised original classification of allergies and chronic pulmonary heart. 1944 hypothesized the existence of hypertony of the pulmonary circulatory system as an independent nosological unit 1954 described the intra vitam diagnosis and clinical aspects of subacute pulmonary heart and devised rational therapy.
1958 introduced ’’euphylline test” to clinical practice. Did major research on the histological substratum in bronchial asthma before and after an attack. Wrote over 140 works on the history of medical, soc hygiene, occupational diseases, internal diseases, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1917.