Background
KOGAN-YASNYY, Viktor was born on July 16, 1889 in Poltava.
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Viktor Moiseycvich KOGAN-YASNYY
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1913 graduate Medical Faculty, Khar’kov University.
Career
1919 founded Organotherapy Institute (later Ukraine Institute of Endocrinology). 1924 defended doctor’s thesis on the preparation, physiological effects and applications of insulin. From 1930 founder-director first Soviet Endocrinological Institute.
From 1930 also professor Chair of General Therapy, then head, Chair of Faculty and Hospital Therapy, Khar’kov Medical Institute. 1931 founded Ukraine Nutrition Institute.
Obtained first Soviet insulin samples at V. Ya. Danilevskiy’s laboratory. Specialized in endocrine diseases, especially diabetes and Basedow’s disease, metabolic disturbances in certain diseases, hypertony, ulcers, pneumonia, et cetera
Proposed the use of insulin-glucose for treating pneumonia. Wrote 175 works on internal medical and endocrinology and edited numerous textbooks and symposia. Company-founder and exec ed, journal Vrachcbnove delo.
Company-ed, internal diseases section, Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia).
Religion
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics