Background
ROMANOVSKIY, Dmitriy was born in 1861.
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Dmitriy Leonidovich ROMANOVSKIY
Edit ProfileTherapist hematologist and specialist in malaria
Education
1886 graduate Military Medical Academy.
Career
After graduate worked as physician at therapeutic depts of military hospitals, including Saint St. Petersburg Clinical Military Hospital. From 1889 senior assistant professor, Clinic of Internal Diseases, then professor, Polyclinic, Saint St. Petersburg Clinical Institute of Postgraduate Medical Training. Specialized in study of infectious diseases, particularly malaria.
1891 defended doctor’s thesis, proposing an original method of staining blood samples in order to study the structure of blood cells and the causative agent of malaria and to observe the morphological lesions of plasmodia affected by quinine. Using this new method, established the mechanism of quinine’s specific action on the causative agent of malaria and preceded Ehrlich in formulating the basic principles of chemotherapy of infectious diseases in general (etiotropic and organotropic action). His blood staining method has become widely used in medical practice.
Most subsequent methods stem from lieutenant
Religion
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
