Background
DMITRENKO, Leonid was born in 1875.
DMITRENKO, Leonid was born in 1875.
1901 graduate Medical Faculty, Kiev University.
1916 defended doctor’s thesis on the effect of gastric reflexes on circulation and respiration. From 1919 associate professor, from 1920 head Diagnostic (later Propaedeutical) Clinic.
1920-1950 professor, Odessa Medical Institute. His still valid research on gastric reflexes and interoceptors received international acclaim. Specialized in the role of the nervous system in the pathogenesis of hypertonic diseases, arteriosclerosis and angina pectoris.
Described the clinical aspects and prognosis of mitral stenosis, croupous pneumonia, et cetera Also described the ’’velvety tone” of the heart in endocarditis. Devised new classification for croupous pneumonia.
His studies of clinical pharmacology included descriptions of the use and effects of nitroglycerine, purine diuretics, camphor, coffein, et cetera Also did research on the clinical aspects of epidemic jaundice and the effect of lead-poisoning on the cardiovascular system, wrote 96 works, including four monographs.
Religion gets people to believe something untrue.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.