RUSSIAN NIKOLAY IVANOVICH PIROGOV RUSSIAN НИКОЛА Й ИВА

RUSSIAN NIKOLAY IVANOVICH PIROGOV (RUSSIAN: НИКОЛА Й ИВА НОВИЧ ПИРОГО В) (25 November [O. S. 13 November] 1810 – 5 December [O. S. 23 November] 1881)

Russian scientist Doctor Pedagogue public figure corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847)

. He is one of the most recognised Russian . physicians the founder of field surgery The first surgeon to use anaesthesia invented various kinds of surgical operations and developed his own technique of using plaster casts

took up an appointment as professor of surgery at the academy of military medicine in Saint Petersburg undertook three years of military service

He first used ether as an anaesthetic in 1847 investigated cholera from 1848 compiled his the anatomical atlas

He worked as an army surgeon in the Crimean War, arriving in Simferopol on December 1854.

He last appeared in public on 24 May 1881 died later that year in the village of Vishnya (now Vinnytsia, Ukraine).

His body is preserved using embalming techniques he himself developed rests in a church in Vinnitsa, Ukraine

Apart from his developed foot amputation techniques

several anatomical structures were named after him, such as the Pirogoff angle; the Pirogoff aponeurosis,