Daniila Samoilovich, Russian epidemiologist.

Daniila Samoilovich was born in 1742. He graduated from Saint Petersburg (university, college of medicine??), the then capital of Russia in the time of Catherine the Great. After this, he worked hard as a doctor and in 1768 he set out for the Russian-Turkish war front.

There he became an epidemiologist. He put a lot of effort into reducing the incidence of disease in the army. And he achieved this purpose successfully.

It was then that he encountered the plague. He knew four languages: Latin, Polish, French and of course Russian, but due to the need to communicate with locals, he learned Moldavian.

Then he figured out that the plague was transmitted not through the air, but through the infected materials? (deceased = dead) stuff. Because of their misconceptions, people performed some crazy actions to protect against the disease, such as cutting a trees, shooting a cannon, or ringing bells. They had the belief that this help the air to move.

He worked so hard he became ill, but the order for his relocation back was delayed for a few months. Instead of the relocation to a calm place, he was sent straight to Moscow, where the plague epidemic was raging and which achieved its peak that year, 1771.

But that is another story about the heroism of Russian medics.

Anecdote

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I have always liked going to school, except now that I study at University, because sometimes I do not feel like doing homework or getting up. I have become a little lazy. I loved elementary school because I liked spending time with my friends and classmates because we had a lot of fun. I liked when we used to play soccer with the girls of B because we always ended up in fights and dares. Also I liked my PE classes because the teacher gave us a lot of games. When I was in fifth grade. I joined the school's marching band and I used to play the drum. I was also in the marching band in first and second grade in middle school, but when I got into third grade, I had to leave to joined the color guard. There was a time when I was in fifth grade that I was failing history and I still don't understand why because I didn't consider it a difficult subject. I've always liked reading and editing workshop classes. I used to participate in the dances. When I was in my first year in middle school, I joined the dance club of the school and I participated in a contest. We danced the Sandunga but we got fifth place.

When I was in freshman in high school, I participated in a dance contest and that time we won second place. In high school I was also part of the color guard this time as a flag bearer because I had the best grade in the class. From elementary school to high school, I got the best grades. My classmates hated me for that and said I was the teacher's pet. I must confess I miss those days.