V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky (Archbishop Luka) - Essays on purulent surgery. Gift book bound in leather.

Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky (Archbishop Luke) is a Russian and Soviet religious figure, surgeon, scientist and spiritual writer, author of works on anesthesiology and purulent surgery. Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of theology, Professor. Winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree for the monograph "Essays of purulent surgery".

His most famous surgical work – "Essays of Purulent Surgery" – Doctor of Medicine V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky, and later professor of surgery and Archbishop Luke, canonized as St. Luke, confessor, Archbishop of Simferopol (1877-1961), began writing in 1916 in Pereslavl-Zalessky. There he worked as the chief physician and surgeon of a hospital turned into a military hospital. Materials for the book Valentin Feliksovich selected from his observations of the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

Even today, this book claims to be a textbook for novice doctors, a reference guide for professionals, a source of ideas and material for discussions among specialists of the highest class. There is hardly another book in the professional medical environment that has not lost relevance for 70 years since its publication. Neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, dentists, urologists and representatives of other specialties can refer to the monograph as an encyclopedia of surgical treatment of purulent diseases of almost all localizations. Academic in content and unique in form of presentation, the book contains reasoned reasoning, original solutions and wise warnings of the author.

The book also publishes for the first time an essay by V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky "Science and Religion". About the amazing fate of the outstanding surgeon Valentin Felixovich Voino-Yasenetsky, Archbishop Luke, after his death beatified locally (in the Crimea) Saints, says academician V.A. Lisichkin, the great-nephew of V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, in his afterword.