He worked as a professor of Hygiene at the
Kazan University. As a native of
West Siberia, Kapustin engaged in medical activities, first as a country doctor, and after 1874, a
military doctor. During the
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Kapustin was a doctor at a military and a temporary hospital in the
Caucasus. After the war, he left military service and returned to general medicine, prefacing his lessons at the hygiene laboratory of Professor A.P. Dobroslavina: "Determination of
carbon dioxide in the air by means of
alcohol sodium hydroxide solution and
titration of water." For this work, in December 1879, he completed the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He worked as health officer in the public boards of several provinces. He developed and implemented various hygienic measures. Kapustin published articles and brochures on various issues of health and community medicine. In 1884, Kapustin was promoted to serve as a private-docent of hygiene in the
Military Medical Academy and the following year became a professor in the same department at the
University of Warsaw. ==References==