III. Post-reading activities

1. Fill in the gaps with suitable words. Try to work from memory.

a) Pyrohov's career as a researcher, excellent ... and clinician was tempestuous.

2. Pyrohov's methods are among the basic methods in the study and teaching

3. He is first created a new medical science, ... surgery.

4. In late November 1881 Russia celebrated the 50^th ... of his career as doc­tor.

5. In September 1947 Pyrohov's estate and the Church with the vault became a ... .

2. Ak your partner questions about Mykola Pyrohov.

3. Retell the text using the following plan:

1. Interesting facts from his biography.

2. Why he is a famous person.

3. His recognition in the world.

4. You are sure to visit Pyrohov's estate in Vinnytsa. Find more useful language relating to the life of the great scientist. Get some tourist information about this museum written in English.

IV. Supplement

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1. Read the information about another prominent scientist — o. Boho-molets.

O. BOHOMOLETS

Oleksandr Bohomolets, born on May 24 1881 in Kyiv, died on July 19 1946 in Kyiv, was a prominent pathophysiologist and scientific administrator, full member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and its president in 1930—46, full mem- ber of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and its vice-president from 1942. Bohomolets graduated from the medical faculty of Odessa University in 1906 and worked there as a lecturer.

In 1911—1925 he served as a professor at Saratov University in Russia and in 1925—1931 as a professor of pathophysiology at Moscow University; he was also the director of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Moscow (1928—1931).

In 1931 Oleksandr Bohomolets moved to Kyiv, where he founded the Institute of Experimental Biology and the Institute of Clinical Physiology.

He prepared a serum named after him (Bohomo­lets serum) which was supposed to prolong life and make it reach 140 years. This promise made Stalin support Bohomolets' work financially.

The park area surrounding the scientist's residence is called Bohomolets Square. O.O. Bohomolets National Medical University and Bohomolets Institute of Physiology, both situated in Kyiv, were named after him.

2. Write sentences about Oleksandr Bohomolets. Use the following word combinations.

To be born, to be a prominent pathophysiologist, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to graduate from, to be a director of, to deal with.

Text 2

1. Read and discuss the text. Underline any words that you do not know. Use a dictionary.

DANYLO ZABOLOTNY (1866—1920)

A part of science which people don't often realize is the courage of those scientists who willingly sacrifice their own lives for the benefit of mankind. There was an example of such courage in our country at the end of the last century. During the 1890s a young doctor named Danylo Zabolotny was carrying out a research with cholera germs at the University of Kyiv. He was trying to develop a vaccine that could be used to pro­tect against the disease. To prove its value the young doctor and one of his assistants — Т.Н. Savchenko — tested the vaccine on themselves. First they swallowed the new vaccine. Then they injected themselves with cholera germs. The vaccine was a success, proved by the courage of the man who had developed it. Danylo Zabolotny was a famous microbiologist who devoted his life to science.