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Alexander Prussak
Russian otologist, born 1839, near Moscow; died January 20, 1897, St. Petersburg.
Associated eponyms:
Prussak's fibres
Elastic and connective tissue fibre bounding the pars flaccida membranae tympani.
Prussak's space
Tiny space in middle ear.
Biography:
Alexander Prussak attended the medical-surgical academy in St. Petersburg, receiving his doctorate in 1862. He then spent two years abroad working in otology. Following his return, in 1870 he received a professorship in this discipline at the Acadmy in St. Petersburg. He retired from his chair in 1863.
Prussak did fundamental work on the the supply of the blood vessels to the eardrum and the conenction between intracranial diseases and ear disturbances.
Bibliography:
- [Conditional alterations of the urine by reaction of nitric-acid on biliary prigment.] In Russian. Doctoral dissertation; St. Petersburg, 1866.
- B. Proctor:
Alexander Prussak. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, St. Louis, April 1968, 77 (2): 344-349.
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