Background
MOROZOV, Mikhail was born in 1879.
MOROZOV, Mikhail was born in 1879.
1904 graduated Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1904-1914 head, Voronezh former local government authority Smallpox Vaccine Station. 1914 founded Voronezh Pasteur Station. 1914-1918 military surgeon.
1918-1923 head, Voronezh Pasteur Station. 1923-1930 director, Ccntr State Smallpox Institute. 1930-1964 head, Smallpox Department, Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, USSR Academy of Med Sei.
Member, ed collegium, journal “Voprosy virologii”. Co-ed, microbiology section, “Bol’shaya meditsinskay entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd end). 1943 devised technique for obtaining a stable combined dry smallpox vaccine.
Improved methods of rapid laboratory diagnosis of smallpox. Did research on the etiology and pathogenesis of influenza, scarlet fever, measles, polyomyelitis, porphyria, etc. 1944 devised technique for staining microbes with tannin-chrysoi- din.
1954 detected virus-like bodies in the spinal fluid of schizophrenics. 1955 advanced his hypothesis on the viral nature of schizophrenia. Devised method of staining elementary viral bodies by argentation.
Made in-depth study of the virus of natural smallpox. Identified Lipschütz’s elementary bodies in cows, sheep, goats and humans and established that the disease caused by paravaccinc is an independent nosological unit in the nature of a benign zoonotic viral disease. In Soviet medical terminology the elementary bodies formed by the viruses of these diseases are now known as Paschen-Morozov and Lipschütz-Morozov bodies.
Also made major contribution to knowledge concerning the mutability of viruses. Considered cancer to be of viral etiology. Wrote over 150 works.
Religion discourages exploration of science and universe by suppressing curiosity, and denies its followers a broader perspective.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1945.