Professor V.P. Pervushin is the pioneer of tick-borne encephalitis (on the 150th anniversary of his birth)

The paper presents the life and career of Professor Vsevolod Prokopyevich Pervushin, a prominent Russian neuropathologist, organizer and the head of neurological facilities in the Urals, teacher, and public figure. In 1899, he described for the f irst time the clinical course of tick-borne encephalitis - a progressive form of brachial plexus neuritis among the residents of the Kazan and Vyatka Provinces. The disease proceeded as an acute seasonal neuroinfection in spring and summer with damage to the cervical spinal cord and its membranes, nerve roots and plexuses. In 1921, he organized and headed for 32 years the Department and Clinic of Nervous System Diseases, first the Perm State University and then the Perm State Medical Institute. In 1939, the professor together with A.A. Pecherkin, A.F. Sarapulova, M.P. Chumakov, and N.A. Zeitlenok initiated studies of tick-borne encephalitis in the Urals. He created the first scientific neurology school in the Urals. Among his students there were renowned professors in neuropathology: V.R. Ovechkin, A.A. Pecherkin, Yu.V. Pervushin, D.T. Kuimov, and A.P. Ierusalemsky, who were the heads of Departments of Nervous System Diseases in Perm, Astrakhan, Chita, and Novosibirsk. V.P. Pervushin was in charge of his organized Section of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists for 30 years and established the first clinic for patients with alcoholism in Russia.

V.P. Pervushin, tick-borne encephalitis, anniversary