Nil Fyodorovich Filatov (russian: Нил Фёдорович Фила́тов, , or , – ) was a medical doctor who is considered the founder of Russian

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. His nephew

Vladimir Filatov Vladimir Petrovich Filatov (russian: Владимир Филaтoв, 15 .S. 27February 1875 in Mikhaylovka, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire – 30 October 1956 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) was a Russian Empire and Soviet ophthalmologist and sur ...

was a prominent

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Career

Having graduated from the

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, he practised as a country doctor in his native region. In 1872–1874, Filatov took additional training in

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, and

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. In 1876, he upheld a thesis on

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and

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, and obtained a doctor degree. Nil Filatov is most famous for describing

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(also known as Filatov's disease) in 1887 and

Dukes' disease Dukes' disease, named after Clement Dukes, also known as fourth disease or Filatov-Dukes' disease (after Nil Filatov), is an exanthem. It is distinguished from measles or forms of rubella, though it was considered as a form of viral rash. Althoug ...

(sometimes referred as Dukes-Filatov disease) in 1885; he was also one of the first to observe

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(1895). In cooperation with Georgy Gabrichevsky he introduced serumal treatment of

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in 1894. He created a number of handbooks on

, which were not only popular in Russia, but also translated into German, French, Italian, Czech and Hungarian. In 1892, Filatov established the Society of Paediatricians in Moscow. The oldest children's hospitals in Moscow (where Filatov worked, now #13), and in Russia (#5, based in St. Petersburg) are named after him.

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