ANDRZEEVSKIY IVAN IVANOVICH — RUSSIAN MILITARY DOCTOR, DOCTOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, SENIOR DOCTOR OF THE IZHEVSK ARMS FACTORY

Abstract

Andrzeevskiy Ivan Ivanovich is a Russian military doctor, Doctor of Medical Sciences. In 1857–1885 I.I. Andrzeevskiy was the junior and then senior physician of the Izhevsk Arms
Factory. In addition to the daily care of patients, the doctor studied the specifics and causes of high diseases ratе of the population of the factory village. He fought epidemics, made considerable efforts to create effective methods of treating various fevers and typhus. He did his best to improve the organization of medical services at the Izhevsk plant by increasing the number of the medical staff and the number of the beds for the patients in the inpatient department. In the doctoral dissertation “Swamp diseases in the north. Medical and topographic description of Izhevsk Arms Factory” he was the first to introduce important medical, topographic and statistical materials, analyzed the class, national, age and gender of the factory population, marriage, fertility, morbidity and mortality, the influence of climate, epidemics and social problems on the dynamics of reproduction. I.I. Andrzeevskiy also made a significant contribution to the study of the living conditions of the factory population.