Abella Method

**Abell Method** is a method of experimental physiology proposed by the American biochemist Lorind Lee Abel in 1885. He studied breathing, metabolic processes and the content of gases in human blood. The method of capillary electrophoresis in transparent living tissues makes it possible to visualize the activities of physiological processes in real time.

Abel I. M. is a Russian physician, born in 1764. The son of Archpriest Joasaph Petrovich Azar of the Oryol province, he received a good education at home. His father forced him to graduate from the seminary, not allowing him to study at universities. When entering the Kyiv Academy, it was required to show examples of the beauty of calligraphy, but the son wrote so well that he surprised everyone, and his father left him to study.

During his years of study at the academy, he was awarded the title of full professor. After completing his studies at the Academy, he was appointed to the Oryol Home for the Poor for the care of the insane and elderly, and a year later - curator of the Vladimir district at the same academy. For fifteen years he practiced medicine in the Kyiv province, then treated soldiers in a military hospital in Mogilev, and had a private clinic in St. Petersburg. Over the years, he has collected a unique collection of plastic materials. He kept rare examples of skulls, such as, for example, those of August Lafontaine, a friend of Goethe, who collected a unique series of skulls of people from different nations of the world (he was chosen by the editor of a German medical journal).