Strazhesko Sign

Strazhesko is a sign developed in the 19th century by the doctor Strazhesko. This principle is that in order to properly treat a patient, it is necessary to understand his condition and symptoms. Strazhesko described this principle as follows: “In order to prescribe the correct treatment for a patient, I must be sure what symptoms the patient has.

Strazhesko Pyotr Ignatievich (08/03/1877 - 04/11/1945): professor, one of the authors of the so-called “closed world” of bloodletting. A graduate of the Odessa Gymnasium, he entered Kiev University, where he graduated in 1902. In 1914 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “On the influence of bloodletting on blood circulation.” With the beginning of the First World War, together with other scientists Nikolai Dmitrievich Strazhesko and Felix Grigoryanovich Pretz, he went to the front, where he headed the Red Cross hospital. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he goes over to the side of the White Army.

Pyotr Ignatievich studied the mechanism of regulation of blood supply to the heart and blood vessels under the influence of external reflex influences and internal mechanisms of self-regulation of the body. Pyotr Ignatvich carefully discovered more than 30 signs of a disorder of the cardiovascular system. During the First World War, he practiced bloodletting to prevent blood loss among soldiers at the front.