Background
MEDOVIKOV, Pyotr was born in 1873.
MEDOVIKOV, Pyotr was born in 1873.
1897 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy.
From 1897 specialized in pediatrics. From 1913 associate professor, Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. From 1919 professor, Chair of Children’s Diseases, Khar’kov University.
From 1920 head, Chair of Pediatrics, State Institute of Advanced Medical Training, Leningrad. Founded children's consultation section and various other children's establishments at Saint St. Petersburg (Petrograd) Military Medical Academy. 1919-1924 helped found first children's senatoria at Pushkin, Petrodvorets, Siverskaya, Tolmachevo and Sestroretsk in Leningrad area.
1937 drafted basic regulations for children's sanatoria, later approved by Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Health. Argued that sanatorium and resort care for children should be both therapeutic and prophylactic and therefore saw that sanatoria provided good physical training facilities. 1925 sponsored and organized 5th All-Union Sciences and Practical Congress on Resort Treatment.
1935 organized similar conferences in Yalta, Yevpatoriya and at State Institute of Resort Treatment. 1936 promoted the construction of a model children's health resort at Yevpatoriya. 1936 work was started on reconstruction of the entire Yevpatoriya area to turn it into a children's health resort.
1935-1940 studied infantile diseases, tuberculosis and rachitis in children and pathology of older children. 1937 laid down indications and contraindications for health resort treatment of children. Member, editorial board, journals “Pediatriya”, “Voprosy tuberkulyoza”, “Okhrana materinstva i mladenchestva”, et cetera
Company-ed, “Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia). Wrote some 70 works.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.