Background
GOLOVIN, Sergey was born on July 14, 1866 in Bolkhov, Oryol Province.
GOLOVIN, Sergey was born on July 14, 1866 in Bolkhov, Oryol Province.
1889 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
From 1889 worked at Eye Clinic, Medical Faculty, Moscow University. 1895 defended doctor’s thesis. 1903-1911 founder and professor, Odessa Eye Clinic.
1911-1918 chief physician, Moscow Eye Hospital. 1918-1931 professor, Chair of Ophthalmology, Moscow University. Devised simple and bone orbitotomy, orbilo-sinus operation, ossioplastic opening of the frontal sinuses, fixation of a displaced tear gland, plastic surgery of the conjunctival sac, et cetera
Invented retrobulbar diaphanoscopy and method of localizing foreign bodies in the eye. Designed an ophthalmoscope without a central opening. Proposed theory of genesis of cataracts and development of sympatitis.
Wrote some 100 works.