Doktor Saperlipopet
Année de publication
2024
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The story we offer you recounts the fate of the author of the sensational discovery in microbiology made at the beginning of the twentieth century - but in the mayhem of wars, revolutions, and financial crises, it was never utilized, lost in the archives of academies - and forgotten for a long time.The main character of this book is Dr. Goldberg, a chief specialist in internal medicine at the government-run clinic reserved for high-ranking patients in Kiev. As a postgraduate at the Pasteur Institute, he brilliantly defended his doctoral thesis in microbiology. His medical degree was awarded to him in Switzerland at the start of World War I and the "Spanish flu" pandemic that followed - claiming more human lives than the war itself. Among his Kiev colleagues he is known mainly for his abrasive and demanding character. The nickname "Grumpy Doctor Saperlipopette" firmly stuck to him at work. Saperlipopette! - the old swearing phrase popular in Kiev was brought there by the doctor from Lausanne, where he studied with the famous physician César Roux, also known for his grumpiness and various curses directed at friends and foes on any suitable occasion. The doctor's defiantly independent and eccentric manners often made him a target for attacks by the authorities - especially during the early 1950s, the height of the persecution of the so-called "Zionist agents", when Stalin, stricken with paranoia, suspected doctors of Jewish origin of plotting to murder Soviet functionaries. Many colleagues believe that the very reputation of a daring weirdo remarkably gifted as a physician, saved the doctor from arrest and execution at the hands of the State Security Service. In any case, Dr. Goldberg can be safely attributed to the small group of "accidental survivors" - headstrong, eccentric geniuses who managed to survive Russia's revolutions, its wars, epidemics, and the hysterical acts of anti-Semitism that struck the country after the victory over the Nazis. Only by the end of the book will we find out how the doctor mana
