[G. A. Miterev, the director of the Erisman Central Research Sanitary Institute].

Abstract

Georgy Andreyevich Miterev, after leaving the post of Minister of Health of the USSR, worked as Director of the F. F. Erisman Central Research Sanitary Institute from 1947 to 1954. In 1948, after ruefully known the VASKHNIL August session and broadened meeting of Presidium of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, he announced reorganization of hygienic science on basis of materialistic principles of Michurin biology and Pavlov physiological doctrine. Proceeding from idea of unity of environment and organism, he believed that among methods of hygienic research main place should be occupied by methods of physiological observation of man, experiment on animals, joint observation with clinicians of effect of environmental factors on health, as well as development of data of general and occupational morbidity. Thus, G. A. Miterev, on basis of quite dubious ideology, organized scientific work of the Sanitary Institute entrusted to him quite rationally.