Maxim SemenovichSubbotin – the founder of asepsis and antiseptics in Russia, an outstanding surgeon, scientist, inventor, teacher

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Abstract. Brief biographical information about Maxim SemenovichSubbotin, the founder of aseptic and antiseptic in Russia, is provided. In 1884, M.S. Subbotin heads the Department of Surgical Pathology at Kharkov University. In addition to scientific and pedagogical activities, he will devote a lot of time to the organizational issues of the clinic. He uses the surgical department of a military hospital as a clinical base for training students at Kharkov University. In addition to the course of surgical pathology with desmurgy, he also conducts a course of surgical surgery, and since 1887, a parallel course of the faculty surgical clinic. However, teaching and scientific work in a small clinic (25 beds) could not satisfy Maxim Semenovich, since by this time he had formed into a major surgeon and scientist, ready for wide surgical and scientific activities. Becoming the head of the Department of Surgical Pathology of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (1890) M.S. Subbotin began its reorganization according to the requirements of asepsis. He organized a new dressing room, the walls and ceilings of which were painted with light oil paint, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles.An operating unit began to function, consisting of two operating rooms, a sterilization room, a bathroom and a material room. A laboratory was established to conduct research and control operations. The clinic strictly and sequentially carried out sterilization of instruments, dressings, processing of the surgical field. M.S. Subbotin studied the effect of carbolic acid on the body, used it to treat wounds. He created his own tent for operations, invented a sterilizer oven, a catgut sterilizer with dry steam, an autoclave, and hemorrhoidal forceps. M.S. Subbotin invented a drainage pump for the treatment of purulent cavities, first made thoracoplasty with pleural empyema. He introduced aseptic and antiseptic into surgical practice. Created a scientific surgical school: P.I. Bukhman, S.S. Girgolav, L.V. Orlov, N.N. Petrov, N.A. Schegolev and others