Background
DITERIKHS, Mikhail was born on November 22, 1871.
DITERIKHS, Mikhail was born on November 22, 1871.
1898 graduate Military Medical Academy.
After graduate worked at Vel’yaminov’s Surgical Clinic, Mi! Medical Academy. 1901 defended doctor’s thesis on lipoma arborescens of the joints. From 1912 professor of surgery, Kiev University.
From 1934 professor of surgery, 3rd Moscow Medical Institute. Specialist in field surgery and the pathology of bones and joints. Devised own classification of diseases of the joints.
Developed splint for the treatment of gunshot fractures of the thigh (Ditcrikh’s splint). Wrote over 100 works, including monographs and manuals, notably on field surgery. Also wrote papers on the history of medical, e.g., on Pard and Lister.
His article "The Soul of the Surgeon” (1925) elicited strong reaction in the press
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.