The tread of the history of Russia through the eyes of the Kremlin doctor

The tread of the history of Russia through the eyes of the Kremlin doctor

About three weeks ago this book fell into my hands.

Myasnikov Alexander Leonidovich Puls of Russia: the turning points of the country's history through the eyes of the Kremlin doctor / A.L. Myasnikov. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2014. - 496s.

ISBN 978-5-699-75726-8

“... the trams did not go ... They gave the light scarcely. The shops were boarded up ...

Nevertheless, life continued: they argued, sat, studied, went to the theater and concerts. And I remember, in the air there was something so exciting, heroic, as if knocking the tread of history. ”

Read this book, and you can see as in reality the turning points of the country through the eyes of the famous Soviet doctor, laureate of the International Golden Stethoscope Award A.L. Myasnikova.

This manuscript was not written for publication and was prohibited to print. It is understandable. After all, the domestic history of the 20th century was reflected by the witness and a direct participant in those fateful events for the country.

Feel the taste of time!

After reading this book several times, I decided to selectively quote the most interesting, from my point of view, lines.

“In 1890, the father of the father in the city of Krasny Hill was opened in our stone house (where I was born later) - by ten beds, with payment of diet and drugs of thirty kopecks per day. Of course, the hospital absorbed the funds many times more. My father received the necessary amounts from his private practice in the city. He spent them on the hospital. "

“The execution of hostages that did not have any guilt before the Soviet regime, with the exception of their unimportant past (that is, only, possibly psychologically configured against the social revolution), struck the people-not only citizens, but also peasants. Soon a wave of searches passed through the city. We had a search and did not find anything reprehensible, they turned correctly, re -read the letters found in the house and outpatient clinics. ”

“We were always a little hungry. It was already difficult in Moscow. A loaf of black bread was sent to me from the house, into which eggs baked (it was impossible to send eggs as such). The bags filled the trains. Summer trains brought thrush with water diluted with milk. ”

“Professor Georgy Fedorovich Lang seemed important and imperious to me. He was dressed perfectly (always white shirts with sparkling cleanliness of cuffs and collars and a well -cooked costume; in addition, he dressed in a snow -white long robe). His eyes glowed through his glasses with his mind, an insightful look made him somehow immediately pull up, to do as much as possible at the height of his capabilities, to try not to drop himself by random stupidity. Big figure G.F. Langa always stood out on a bypass among the tops of the doctors-as if the elephant was surrounded by some other, smaller and minor animals. ”

“Lang’s imperative voice was heard through the door:“ I have nothing to find anything. Only nervousness on the basis of overwork. Here you have a mixing, take this and so. When to come again? No need. Everything will pass. " Indeed, usually everything went away. Most patients were neurotics or suspicious, or someone (often doctors) frightened people. It was important for them to visit the famous professor, after which they soon forgot that they considered themselves recently sick. At the reception at G.F. Langa I was convinced of how great the suggestive component in treatment was. And since then it is clear to me why, in the age of heyday of therapy (antibiotics, hormones, vitamins), homeopathy is still popular. Small shiny grains obtained from the hands of the famous homeopath (in fact, absolute charlatan) act in the same way as Brom with Valerian, obtained according to the recipe for Lang. ”

“Lang wrote out about twenty foreign medical magazines. In addition, a lot of parcel with foreign brands and books constantly came by mail. In general, Lang had an excellent library used by his employees. Lang was distinguished by the ability to quickly capture the most important thing, to distinguish the necessary from the unnecessary. He possessed not only exceptional erudition, but also a special warehouse of the mind, which allowed enormous literary materials to quickly bring into a harmonious and effective system. His critical mind did not succumb to fashion, a sensation, although he noted every new idea, he noted the new method with interest. ”

“Data processing required elementary decency. How many times I caught myself on the desire to discard any study that did not give the results that, it seemed, had to be counted. I always wanted to have “convincing data”. Although I found in myself so much decency as not to distort the results of observations, I can still say how great the temptation to embellish my work is. The vicious requirement of higher instances is especially inclined to this, excessively detailing scientific plans and to record the deadlines of their completion, and even the “expected results”. Probably, such a frequent discrepancy between the actual data obtained by various authors is partly explained not only by the falsity of the methods, but also by the falsity of researchers. ”

“I knew, in addition, one important circumstance: Pletnev did not treat Gorky with the last days of his illness - he was treated by G.F. Lang. It was Lang who was involved in the instructions of Stalin in the hills and was there for ten days inseparably there. Under his personal observation, the treatment of M. Gorky was treated. Fortunately, the directors of the tragedy did not need Lang, her plot did not extend to him, the name of Lang did not appear on the “process”, as if he had not been there. ”

“Trust” is the fruit of that fake democracy of the elections that was established in our country. ”

“The war with Finland was extremely heavy. The Finns fought like lions, fired in the forests from trees. They well strengthened the border on the Karelian Isthmus (Mannerheim line), and the blood of our fighters spilled a lot to finally overcome the Finnish defense. All Leningrad was scored by the wounded. In addition, there were severe frosts, patients came from the front with the “frostbite of the lungs” (a kind of extremely severe diffuse bronchiolite). The year of 1940 we lived in the country. The hot summer stood. There was an extraordinary harvest of mushrooms. To war, they spoke in the village. Mushrooms grew even at the fences, along the roads. I dragged huge white baskets from the forest twice a day. ”

“On August 1, 1940, a resolution was held on the organization on the basis of the III Leningrad Medical Institute and the Faculty of Marine of the Naval Medical Academy. Obukhov’s hospital accepted the arches of sailors under her arches. ”

“The tragic campaign of the Baltic Fleet from Tallinn to Kronstadt under the leadership of the former paramedic, and now Admiral Tributz, perhaps was forced. But if the authorities had more the ability to foresee and less dull obedience, it could have committed it before and thereby save thousands of lives of glorious sailors for the same defense of Leningrad. The fleet went under fire from both shores of the Gulf of Finland, under a hail of bombs of German aircraft. The ships drowned one after another. The salty font swallowed by our naval doctors, including our lovely pupils and pupils. However, some of them were saved and, lying in our clinic, talked about the horror experienced. The sea command decided to transport youth from Leningrad through Leningrad, who had just graduated from naval educational institutions. Listeners of the Naval Medical Academy were among them. They got to some village on Lake Ladoga, in the evening plunged into barges. The storm raged, the darkness, the barges were old, they were scattered, German planes flew, almost all the vessels crashed and drowned, and several thousand specialists with them. ”

“In Kirov, we settled in the naval hospital, which occupied a large new premises of the central hotel. The fat boss, nicknamed Fedya-Kipka, fed us, just in the sanatorium. We began to look for a base for organizing a clinic. First, the clinic was opened in one of the evacuation edges, then it was decided to place the main clinics in the naval hospital. It turned out small, but fairly comfortable departments, with good laboratories. Classes with listeners resumed. For theoretical departments, the building of the Pedagogical Institute was reserved, behind the bazaar area.

The Kirov period of the war was a rather busy city. Some factories were located around. Countless evacuated has occupied the best buildings. Conferences of doctors, even scientific. The hospital for thoracic patients worked just as an institute - with a good X -ray cabinet, a biochemical laboratory, etc. I had to go there at consultations.

Trains were brought from Leningrad exhausted. In the clinic, we took up a systematic study of a new disease for us - alimentary dystrophy.

In Kirov, relatives of the Vasnetsovs still lived. We visited their house and watched the remaining secondary things there. The sketches of Khokhryakov and Dayshin were exchanged for ration herring.

In the summer, my wife and sons and my sons settled in a spacious hut of the village of Clead near the Pinyug station. This village really crawled out from under the hill.

Two to three times a day we went to the sanatorium, moved over the river Pushma, the cold water of which refreshed us, and the guys were beckoning to swim. There were lush herbs, carpets and a mass of strawberries around. In neighboring forests in the meadows, everything was blushing from the berries. The berries were large, ripe, hung with plentiful clusters. I have not collected so much strawberries before or after, and I still seem to me when you close my eyes, these magic berry thickets. ”

“They say that healthy. A normal person does not think about death, but this is correct about the young. Arithmetic years are inexorable. She mathematically proves how little it remains to live. Even with great optimism, it is impossible to get rid of the constant and growing fear of death, although it can be artificially hidden or softened by biological and philosophical considerations. It seems to me that the main “trump card” of religion is faith in the afterlife - no matter how stupid he is, creates the liberation from this fear. ”

“Patients do not like fast doctors, consider them superficial, but revere those who grunt, silent, as they think.”

“The essence is that the value of the scientist in our country is still often determined by personal connections, sympathies of their own or those in power. In addition, people are less worthy of peak more worthy (so that the latter do not boast too much their scientific significance, think!). It is important to establish a general damage, leveling of the team, and not to stick out personal merits of individuals. Like in a tram - do not stick out! ”

“Surprisingly tenacious faith in healers among our socialist“ intelligentsia ”! A certain German suggested treating tuberculosis with some kind of potion-this is in the era of streptomycin! She had a “hand” in the Council of Ministers. In Leningrad, cancer is still treated by cadmium salts, however, has some relation to medicine (his wife is an oncologist). The writers are his support (though mainly women - Vera Ketlinskaya, Antonina Koptyaeva). Moscow artists are treated with homeopaths. Homeopath Mukhin has a rich practice, collected an excellent collection of Roerich's paintings.

A true science does not cause emotions - the picture of the result acting on the imagination is important. ”

“It was still bad in agriculture. Collective farms, at least in the north lane of the Union, lived poorly. We visited the country daily and could see the "endangered villages" (the expression of A.I. Shingarev in the pre -revolutionary period). "

“Blate generally entered our lives as money, as a situation (however, it is often determined by blat). Other, ordinary possibilities began to appear with the course of time, but still our life is largely through with the help of blat.”

“I managed to visit Versailles. Beautiful, majestic parks, but the palace building itself is still gloomy and empty. Fountains did not work. The statues have not yet been returned (after the German occupation). They explained to us that the French government has no money to restore Versailles. True, Rothschild came to the rescue - part of the restoration work was carried out for his donations, for which a memorial plaque was hanged in his honor. ”

Sweden is a neutral country, has not fought for 150 years. We tend to explain the high standard of life of the population (but, not only that, it seems to me). Workers have good apartments (we were in them) of two or three rooms. They are distributed by the municipality, even in houses built on private funds (the owner receives only part of the apartment fee - the other goes to the total fund, which provides repairs, utilities, etc.). ”

The book contains many other interesting materials and thin life observations of the author.

It will be interesting for everyone, not just for medicine workers.

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Alexander Rashkovsky, local historian, May 10, 2015.