Background
SELITSKIY, Sergey was born in 1883.
SELITSKIY, Sergey was born in 1883.
1910 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1910-1926 intern, then assistant professor, Royal Marines Makeyev, then North.l. Pobedinsky’s clinics, Medical Faculty, Moscow University. 1921 defended doctor’s thesis on “K voprosu ob eklampsii v klinicheskom otnoshenii” (The Clinical Aspects of Eclampsia), 1926-1931 head, Women's Department, State Research Institute of Mother and Child Care, Moscow.
1931-1933 head, Obstetrics and Gynecological Clinic Section, Ivanov Oblast Research Institute. 1933-1935 professor, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. 1935-1938 chief obstetrician and gynecologists, Maloyaroslavets.
1939-1943 consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, Medical and Health Board, People's Commissariat of Means of Communication. Opposed Stroganov method of treating eclampsia. One of first Russian gynecologists to treat it without drugs.
Described new form of pregnancy toxicosis (cercbroet psychopathia toxica gravidarum). Classified pregnancy and menstrual dermatosis. Schematized correlation of endocrine glands in pregnancy.
Editor, gynecological section, 1st ed of “Biomedical Engineering” (Large Medical Encyclopedia). Wrote over 100 works.