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About Vassily von Anrep
Vassily Konstantinovich von Anrep was a Russian surgeon who worked in the army and later in the medical governance in St Petersburg. He is considered as a pioneer of local anesthesia having conducted experiments on local anesthesia using cocaine and suggested its use in surgery in 1879. His son Gleb Anrep (1891-1955) became a medical physiologist.
Everything about Vassily von Anrep →- Occupation
- physician, politician, pharmacologist, physiologist
- Position held
- Member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- September 29, 1852
- Died
- October 1, 1927