Grube Wilhelm Fedorovych: Steps of Professor's Carrier

Abstract

Publication deals with the main facts and events of W. F. Grube, the outstanding Professor of surgery, medical faculty of Kharkiv Emperor University. Among the achievements of Professor W. F. Grube was the first use of nitrous oxide during the operation, publication of works, devoted to the use of chloroform and morphine for analgesia during the operations. He was the one of the first ones, who made operations for ovariectomy, strangulated hernia, hydrocele of the brain, surgery on the liver and pancreas, resection of joints in tuberculous lesions, etc. He made a lot for the introduction of antiseptic. In 1890, he sat an apparatus for sterilization and organized special laboratory for investigation and improvement of aseptic method.