A museum dedicated to the Kazan School of Ophthalmology has opened in the city

It contains works of famous scientists, the first instruments of doctors, as well as rare pictures of operations.

(KZN.RU, April 11, Alina Berezhnaya). The museum dedicated to the Kazan Ophthalmological School has opened in the Republican Clinical Ophthalmological Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the RT (14, Butlerov Street). It contains works of famous scientists, the first instruments of doctors, as well as rare pictures of operations. The opening of the museum is timed to the 180th anniversary of Professor Emilian Adamyuk, the founder of the ophthalmological school in Kazan. One of the first exhibits of the museum was estimated by the journalists of the city and republican mass media.

The whole history of the development of the Kazan School of Ophthalmology is presented in dozens of the rarest exhibits of the new museum. The first sets of ophthalmic instruments, glasses of prominent ophthalmologists, tonometers from the beginning of the XX century, and much more are stored under glass. With all the variety of exhibits, the “heart” of the museum can rightly be called the scientific works of Kazan ophthalmologists. In particular, the work of Emilian Adamyuk, a professor, an outstanding domestic ophthalmologist, the founder of the Kazan School of Ophthalmology, which dates back to 1870.

“After graduating from the Kazan Imperial University, Adamyuk left for a two-year business trip abroad, where he studied the experience of eye clinics in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and France. This trip largely influenced the development of ophthalmology in Kazan”, Oksana Korneva, a translator at the Republican Medical Information and Analytical Center, told reporters.

Returning from the trip, E. Adamyuk opened a small eye clinic, where he treated hundreds of patients from all over the country. As a medical practitioner, he did a lot of science. His research interests included diseases such as glaucoma, myopia and trachoma. Thus, thanks to the work of Adamyuk, the first trachomatous institute was opened in Kazan in 1922, named after the first Kazan ophthalmologist. By 1964, the managed to heal trachoma, one of the terrible diseases of the time. Then the Ministry of Health issued an order to rename the Institute to the Republican Ophthalmological Hospital. The original document is stored on one of the museum stands.

Roland and Barbara Kloss, relatives of the prominent ophthalmologist Adamyuk, came to the homeland of their ancestor from Austria.

According to them, they learned about their roots by accident. Vladimir Chibisov from Moscow, whose mother knew one of Adamyuk's distant relatives, helped them touch the history of their family. “I found a professorial certificate, scientific works of Adamyuk and many books in my mother’s apartment. It became interesting, and I began to study the history of the eminent doctor. So I went to Roland and Barbara Kloss, whom I found on social networks”, explained V. Chibisov.

“We were shocked because we didn’t know anything about our relative”, said Roland Kloss. “This story got our interest, and I began to study my roots. It turned out that Emilian had four children, one of the daughters married an Austrian officer and moved to Vienna, so Adamyuk's clan continued in Austria. I am proud that I have such roots”.

The Kazan Ophthalmological School still remains one of the leading in the country. Museums are created and conferences are held in memory of the outstanding scientist. These days, a scientific-practical conference “New Technologies in Ophthalmology” dedicated to E. Adamyuk is being held in Kazan. About 1000 ophthalmologists from all over the country became its participants. Within two days, they will not only discuss the results of scientific research, new approaches in the treatment and diagnosis of eye diseases, but also conduct demonstration operations. Already today, 8 doctors from Kazan, Samara, Moscow and other cities in the Republican Clinical Ophthalmological Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tajikistan conducted 8 vitreoretinal operations and cataract surgery. The work of ophthalmologists through the Internet was observed by doctors from all over the country. “This is a unique opportunity to share experience and learn. The format of “live” surgery is useful for beginning doctors”, said Alexander Samoilov, an ophthalmologist of the highest category, the head of the department of the KSMU.

There are still unexplored areas in ophthalmology despite the fact that medicine is developing every year, and the equipment in Kazan meets all international standards. “Issues of restoring lost areas of the eye and the function of the optic nerve are beyond technological capabilities. Russian ophthalmology is working on these problems”, explained Pavel Lyskin, the surgeon of the vitreoretinal surgery department of the Ophthalmological Microsurgery Academy named after S. Fedorov in Moscow.

The conference will end tomorrow with the plenary session.