In memory of the professor – the postage stamp

Left a deep trace

“Have you ever wondered why some personalities are named streets, schools, hospitals, and other institutions? Why do their faces decorate envelopes or stamps? ” – When asked the audience, the head of the Pranas Mažylis Maternity Home Assoc. dr. Tomas Biržietis soon responded to him.

To be seen and appreciated, he says, means a great deal. To be luminous for other generations – even more. This is far from everyone.

« Neither the hour nor the two would be enough to tell everything about P. Mažylis, » said T. Biržietis, who stopped in the first photo of the professor, and his own office, and continued his acquaintance with the founder of the Lithuanian Obstetrics and Gynecology School, the organizer of the maternity aid, the clinicist and the educator.

For example, in one photo, he is hard to recognize, with his parents, wealthy farmers Jurgis and Ona little ones. The other – with brother Antanas and sisters Tekle, Alexandra, Antanina. Having worked in the Krakow Hospital in the first year, 1918. He returned to an independent Lithuania. Healed, taught, took care of the help of women at birth, developed infrastructure, wrote scientific articles.

« This is where P. Mažylis knows what we know, » Biržietis stopped at a photo of the professor, which can be found in his own office. It contains a well -known person who has been a well -known, country medicine, the richest inter -war Lithuanian doctor, the light of Kaunas profession, and the patients and colleagues are respectfully called Mr. Daktar.

I do not stop interested in grandfather's personality and details of life. He is the greatest authority of mine, our family and the whole tribe.

A diverse personality

Mr. Mažylis had not only a beautiful home, a household, a driver with a driver, but also a private hospital with state -of -the -art equipment throughout Europe.

« After the purchase of the plot, the medical facility has arisen in nine months-as long as the woman's pregnancy lasts, » Biržietis added that the hospital had gave birth to wealthy women in the first year, and since the 1940s the midwifery began to be provided to all births. Knowing how many women give birth at home, how many of them die of complications, Mr. Mažylis has given ten free beds to poor women and accepted births for free. The professor was one of the pioneers of the blood transfusion in Lithuania, and during the complicated births, this method was screaming at the Cross Hospital as early as 1926. The doctor also devoted a great deal of effort to fight cancer. At the Red Cross Hospital, he began to apply the treatment of Radi rays in 1935. was one of the founders of the Society of Cancer.

“Grandpa's personality and details of life do not stop interested. He is the greatest authority of mine, our family and the whole tribe. His life is a book of different experiences, professionalism, humanity and wisdom – the grandson of the enlightenment prof. Liudas Mažylis emphasized not only his grandfather's professional achievements, but also his citizenship. « It can be called a revolutionary because he was sitting in Tsarist prisons, and a refugee, because he was forced to emigrate to Krakow for eleven years. »

History: The postage stamp depicts a maternity home and their founder. Photo by Regimantas Zakšensk

Special postage stamp

However, most of his life, Mr. Mažylis, was given medicine, so his name, as T. Biržietis noted, is heard more often than others. In 2015, commemorating the 130th birth anniversary of the academic, a special commemorative envelope was published at the initiative of the Lithuanian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaunas Regional Obstetrics and Gynecology Society and the Lithuanian Medical and Pharmaceutical History Museum. A decade later, a postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 140s of P. Mažylis' birth and the 59th anniversary of his death. It is also no coincidence that the place to present to the commemoration-philatelists, collectors, academics and future obstetrics and gynecology specialists gathered at Kaunas College Faculty of Medicine, where two years ago, a named audience named after P. Mažylis.

“Kaunas College Faculty of Medicine celebrates its 105th anniversary this year. The faculty, then the Medical School, started in 1920. February 16th The founder of this educational institution was prof. P. Mažylis, without which the history of Lithuanian medicine is unimaginable. December 11 of the same year. The first 25 midwifery show was released, ”said Julius Dovydaitis, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, addressing the presentation guests.

The postage stamp shows a graphic shadow hat portrait of P. Mažylis and his private hospital on V. Putvinskio Street.