History of creation
A.E. Favorsky fulfilled the first experiments of getting vinyl ether even in 1888. In 1940 the new antiseptic material was synthesized by A.E. Favorsky, the academician and M.F. Shostakovsky, the professor in Organic Chemistry Institute of Academy of Sciences of USSR. That was vinylinum
In summer, 1941, the Instinute was evacuated to Kazan. The laboratory was headed by Mikhail Fyodorovich Shostakovsky who was the candidate of chemical sciences those times. The polymeric lubricant additives were developed in the laboratory.
But there was the need in the medicine against of inflammation, burns, fever. The laboratory was requested about the reducibility of medicine. The synthetic polymers had never been applied in medicine before. But the chemists rescued. The first probation batch of material was mad already in Autumn, 1940.
As the portion was ready it was sent to the physiologists who worked beside, at University. They tested it on the frogs the same day.
The result was got rather fast. The fraction with the molecular weight 1,5 - 2 thousands made the healing of burns faster by coating the tissues and stimulating the expansion of epithelium tissue. At the same time it was absolutely non toxic!!! - it was also tested on animals.
They believed in balsam then so much that they sent it to hospital immediately. The hospital was located near the University. There were many wounded solders with heavy burns. So that the Chief Doctor gave the command to use the remedy at the same time not waiting for the documentation work.
In 1957 M.F. Shostakovsky arranges the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Irkutsk. It was one of the first academic institutes in Eastern Siberia.
The developing of materials for medicine and agriculture became the priority for the research at the Institute. Favorsky- Shostakovsky Balsam was studied and modified. The remedy saved thousands of lives during the Great Patriotic War.
The sulfur containing product ROSK operatively produced in Temirtau (Kasakhstan) was able to put down the numerous trichophytia disease of cattle in Siberia and Kasakhstan.
