Background
UNDRITS, Vil’gcl’m was born in 1891.
UNDRITS, Vil’gcl’m was born in 1891.
1914 graduate Pctrograd Military Medical Academy.
1914-1918 military surgeon in Russian Army. 1918-1940 intern, junior lecturer, senior assistant professor, then professor and deputy head, Chair of Otolaryngology, Pctrograd (Leningrad) Military Medical Academy. Also consultant, Leningrad Deaf and Dumb Institute.
From 1930 also head, Experimental Biology Department, Leningrad Sciences Practical Institute for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases. 1940-1963 head Chair of Otolaryngology, 1st Leningrad Medical Institute. 1941-1945 chief otolaryngologist of Leningrad Front and consultant for Leningrad evacuation hospitals.
Foreign many years bd member, All-Union Sciences Social of Otolaryngologists and chairman of its Leningrad Branch. Company-ed, “Otolaryngology” section, 2nd ed of “Bol’shaya meditsinskaya cntsiklopcdiya”. Member, ed council, journal “Vestnik otorinolaringologiya”.
Emphasized physiological and clinico-physiological trend in otolaryngology. Designed instruments and new methods of studying and treating car, nose and throat diseases. First to describe symptom of cortical deafness — an imbalance in the perception of simple and complex sounds (1923).
Devised method of using electro-acoustic apparatus for studying and speech-training deaf mutes. First Soviet sci to study functions of the inner ear by recording cochlear currents. Devised methods of recording the nystagment reaction of the eye muscles.
Established working pattern of the vestibular apparatus. Traced central paths of the nystagma reflex. Experimentallay studied the limits of absolute and relative acoustic injury.
Studied the factor of cooling and role of cold in the etiology of acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. Studied allergy and vasomotor dysfunction of the nasal mucous membrane. Wrote thesis on new clinical form of lymphadenitis — alimentary lymphadenitis.
Devised original means of removing foreign bodies from awkward corners of the epipharynx and with intracranial wounds. Wrote chapter on injuries of the middle and inner ear for the mulli-volume publication Opyt sovetskoy meditsiny v Ve/ikoy Otechestvennoy voyne 1941—1945 gg (The Experience of Soviet Medicine in the 1941-1945 Great Fatherland War). Wrote over 100 research works.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1946.