Keilin Mark Markovich. Forgotten biography of the founder of the ENT service of Crimea

The article is devoted to previously unknown facts of the biography of the founder of the otorhinolaryngology service of Crimea, a Simferopol doctor, whom contemporaries called «the patriarch of otolaryngology of Taurida» — Keilin Mark Markovich. The authors of the article, based on the search in the database of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea, in the pre-revolutionary funds of the leading Crimean libraries and local history museums, managed to find that the doctor began his career as a resident physician of the Taurida Gubernatorial Zemstvo Hospital, became interested in otorhinolaryngology and opened the first private specialized ENT office in the region, became the founder of the Society of Otolaryngologists of Crimea and for many years was its chairman, was the initiator of the opening of the first hospital for ear, throat and nose diseases in Crimea. In addition, the article provides brief information about the doctor’s family members, and traces the fate of his descendants, since it was Mark Markovich who became the founder of a medical dynasty of four generations.