The stories behind the science — the forgotten firsts and the unsung pioneers.
Fan ortidagi hikoyalar — unutilgan birinchilar va tan olinmagan kashshoflar.
This section is a collection of essays on medical history — the discoveries that changed medicine, the people behind them, and the stories that textbooks leave out. Many of the most important advances in medicine came from people working at the margins: immigrants, outsiders, and scientists whose contributions were recognized only decades after their deaths.
In 1946, a Soviet physiologist named Vladimir Demikhov performed the first successful experimental heart transplant in a dog — 21 years before Christiaan Barnard's famous 1967 human transplant. Demikhov also pioneered lung transplants, coronary artery bypass concepts, and even transplanted a two-headed dog that survived for weeks. Barnard himself visited Demikhov's laboratory and later acknowledged him as a pioneer. Yet in the West, Demikhov remains largely unknown. His work was suppressed by Soviet bureaucracy, and the Cold War ensured that his contributions were minimized in Western medical literature.
I wrote a case report on Demikhov's work published in Case Reports in Neurology — not just for historical completeness, but because it matters who gets credited in medicine. The stories we tell shape the stories we believe are possible.
More essays coming. Topics in progress: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and the Canon of Medicine, the history of anesthesia, and the forgotten women of cardiac surgery.
Pulatov O, Tapia C. Vladimir Demikhov and the history of experimental cardiac transplantation. Case Reports in Neurology. 2024.
Bu bo'lim tibbiyot tarixiga oid insholar to'plami — tibbiyotni o'zgartirgan kashfiyotlar, ularning ortidagi odamlar va darsliklar tashlab ketgan hikoyalar. Tibbiyotdagi eng muhim yutuqlarning ko'pchiligi chetda ishlaydigan odamlardan kelgan: muhojirlar, tashqaridan kelganlar va hissalari o'limlaridan o'n yillar o'tgach tan olingan olimlar.
1946 yilda Vladimir Demixov ismli sovet fiziologi itda birinchi muvaffaqiyatli eksperimental yurak ko'chirishni amalga oshirdi — Christiaan Barnardning mashhur 1967 yilgi inson transplantatsiyasidan 21 yil oldin. Demixov shuningdek o'pka transplantatsiyasi, koronar arteriya shunti tushunchalarini kashshof qildi. Barnardning o'zi Demixov laboratoriyasiga tashrif buyurdi va keyinchalik uni kashshof sifatida tan oldi. Ammo G'arbda Demixov deyarli noma'lum bo'lib qolmoqda.
Men Demixovning ishi haqida Case Reports in Neurology jurnalida maqola yozdim — nafaqat tarixiy to'liqlik uchun, balki tibbiyotda kimga tan berilishi muhim bo'lgani uchun.
Ko'proq insholar tez kunda. Jarayondagi mavzular: Ibn Sino va Tibbiyot qonunlari, anesteziya tarixi va yurak jarrohligining unutilgan ayollari.
Pulatov O, Tapia C. Vladimir Demixov va eksperimental yurak transplantatsiyasi tarixi. Case Reports in Neurology. 2024.