Professor S. S. Zimnitsky, as a scientist

Russian medicine undoubtedly lost in Professor S.S. Zimnitsky one of the major therapists, a learned clinician, very gifted, with an inquisitive, eternally searching mind of a philosopher researcher. It is difficult now, when this loss is still so fresh, to draw a full and true picture of S.S.'s scientific quests and give an objective assessment of what he contributed to our science - difficult because new ideas in medicine often lose much to contemporaries just when they are especially bright, especially paradoxical, and are recognized as scientific truth only much later, when they have passed all tests of strict and often biased criticism.