Prominent physician and manager of health care in the Crimea (on the 120th anniversary of the death of N.N. Betling)

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

The year 2022 marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Nikolai Nikolaevich Betling, one of the most prominent representatives of pre-revolutionary medicine in the Taurida Gubernia. For more than thirty years he was the head of the Taurida Gubernatorial Zemstvo Hospital, which he took over in a very difficult and crucial period — soon after it was transferred from the Prikaz Public Charity to the Taurida Gubernatorial Zemstvo. It was his efforts that laid the foundation for the development of not only the practical medicine of the region, but also the surgical research center of the Gubernia. For his outstanding contribution to medicine, Betling was awarded not only several orders, but also the title of honorary nobility, and after his death a street in Simferopol was named in his honour. However, over a century later, Betling’s legacy has been forgotten. Today Betling’s name is known only to some local historians and is practically not mentioned in scientific publications. The authors of the article analyzed pre-revolutionary literature sources and searched among archival documents, plans and photographs. Today, in the main building of the former hospital is a Department of Human Anatomy of Institute “Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky”, where medical students of junior courses are trained. Resurrecting the memory of such figures of Medicine as Betling is a fertile ground for creating a sense of pride in the national history of Medicine among aspiring physicians.

Contribution of the authors:
Zvereva E.E. — research concept and design, material collection and processing, text writing;
Kutia S.A. — research concept and design, processing, editing.
All authors — approval of the final version of the article.

Acknowledgment. The study had no sponsorship.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Received: February 01, 2023
Accepted: April 12, 2023
Published: November 3, 2023

About the authors

Ekaterina E. Zvereva

V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: zvereva2029@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2295-4975

Assistant of Human Anatomy Department of Institute “Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky” of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, 295051, Russian Federation.

e-mail: zvereva2029@yandex.ru

Russian Federation

Sergey A. Kutia

V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1145-4644
Russian Federation

References

  1. In the memory of Nikolai Nikolaevich Betling. Society of Simferopol Doctors [Pamyati Nikolaya Nikolaevicha Betlinga. Obshchestvo Simferopol‘skikh vrachey]. Simferopol’; 1903. (in Russian)
  2. Protocols of the Congress of zemstvo doctors of the Taurida province from 1873–1880. Simferopol’; 1881. (in Russian)
  3. Protocols of meetings and Proceedings of the Society of Simferopol Doctors for 1902. Simferopol’; 1904. (in Russian)
  4. Shabasheva N.Ya. Surgical treatment of tumors in Russia. (According to data of the Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal from 1823–1885). Voprosy onkologii. 1962; 8(2): 112–7. (in Russian)
  5. V’yunitskaya L.N. Nikolay Nikolaevich Betling. In: Crimea in Faces and Biographies [Krym v litsakh i biografiyakh]. Simferopol’: Atlas-Kompakt; 2008. (in Russian)
  6. Journals of the Tauride Provincial Zemsky Assembly of the 27th regular session December 10–19, 1892. Simferopol’; 1893. (in Russian)
  7. Journals of the meetings of the Tauride Provincial Zemsky Assembly of the 33rd regular session December 10–19, 1898. Simferopol’; 1899. (in Russian)
  8. Blagoveshchenskiy D.A. The activities of the surgical department of the Provincial Hospital of the Tauride Zemstvo over the past 17 years and the attitude of district zemstvos and zemstvo doctors to it. N.p.; 1913. (in Russian)
  9. Minutes of meetings and Proceedings of the Society of Simferopol Doctors for 1895. Simferopol’; 1897. (in Russian)
  10. Detailed alphabetical index to articles published in the Military Medical Journal from 1823–1893. Moscow; 1894. (in Russian)
  11. Chichagov L.M. Medical Conversations [Meditsinskie besedy]. Moscow; 1892. (in Russian)
  12. Salgir. 1902; 127: 1–2. (in Russian)

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML

Copyright (c) 2023 Zvereva E.E., Kutia S.A.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

СМИ зарегистрировано Федеральной службой по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций (Роскомнадзор).
Регистрационный номер и дата принятия решения о регистрации СМИ:  ПИ № ФС77-50668 от 13.07.2012 г.