Pyotr Fokich Borovsky (russian: Пётр Фоки́ч Боро́вский, 8 June 1863 – 15 December 1932) was Russian and Soviet surgeon and

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administrator of who worked in Tashkent, professor of surgery in Tashkent Medical Institute. Borovsky is credited for the first correct description of the causative agent of

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Biography

Pyotr Borovsky was born on in Pogar, Starodub Uyezd,

Chernigov Governorate The Chernigov Governorate (russian: Черниговская губерния; translit.: ''Chernigovskaya guberniya''; ), also known as the Government of Chernigov, was a guberniya in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian ...

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. After studying medicine and specializing in surgery at Kyiv University and the Military Medical Academy in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, in 1892 he was sent to serve in Tashkent Military Hospital as head of surgical department and bacteriological laboratory. Borovsky was one of the founders of Tashkent University Faculty of Medicine, that later became the Tashkent Medical Institute. He had been the head of Department of Hospital Surgery since 1920 and until his death in 1932. In 1927 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for his contributions to

in Uzbek SSR.

Oriental sore description

Borovsky became interested in exploring the aetiology of Sart sore, one of the local names for

. He microscopically examined sections of sores excised in their early stages, before they ulcerated, and was able to detect oval bodies with a nucleus and a small process, which were usually located inside host cells, and made the correct conclusion that the observed organisms are the causative agents of this disease, and correctly ascribed it to Protozoa. Borovsky published his observations in Russian ''Voenno-meditsinsky zhurnal'' (''Medical-Military Journal'') in 1898. Due to low circulation of that publication, his priority was internationally recognised much later.Early discoveries regarding the parasite of oriental sore. C.A. Hoare. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 32, Issue 1, 25 June 1938, Pages 66–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(38)90097-5

References

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