Nikolay Sklifosovsky

{{Short description|Russian surgeon and physiologist}}

{{Other uses|Sklifosovsky (TV series)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Nikolay Sklifosovsky

| native_name = {{nobold|Николай Склифосовский}}

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Nikolay Sklifosovsky 1899.jpg

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| caption = Sklifosovsky in 1899

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|03|25|df=y}}{{cite web | title=Склифосовский Николай Васильевич | website=Летопись Московского университета | url=http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/467 | language=ru | access-date=2024-01-29}}

| birth_place = Dubăsari, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|11|30|1836|03|25|df=y}}

| death_place = near Poltava, Russian Empire

| field = Medicine

| work_institution = Imperial Moscow University

| alma_mater = Imperial Moscow University (1859)

| education = Doctor of Science (1863)

| thesis_title = About the bloody periutrical tumor (О кровяной околоматочной опухоли)

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| known_for = first application of the aseptic method in surgery;

first use of local anesthesia

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky ({{Langx|ru|Николай Васильевич Склифосовский}}; {{OldStyleDate|6 April|1836|25 March}} — {{OldStyleDate|13 December|1904|30 November}}) was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubăsari, which is now in Transnistria.

Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and Moscow. He was a founder of the «Clinical Town» at Devichye Pole.

In 1870, on the recommendation of Pirogov, another prominent Russian surgeon, Sklifosovsky was invited to head the department of surgery at Kyiv University. However, he did not stay in Kyiv for long: soon he went to war again, this time to the theater of the Franco-Prussian war.

About 10,000 wounded passed through Sklifosovskyi. The doctors and nurses, among whom was the surgeon's wife Sofya Oleksandrivna, supported Nikolai Vasylievich's strength by occasionally pouring a few sips of wine into his mouth between separate operations.{{Cite web|url=https://ipoltavets.com/uk/eternal-zamovlennya-na-vbyvstvo-gubernatora-ta-smert-ditej-poltavske-zhyttya-talanovytogo-hirurga-sklifosovskogo|title=Замовлення на вбивство губернатора та смерть дітей: полтавське життя хірурга Скліфосовського - ipoltavets.com|date=August 26, 2022}}