Vol 31, No 1 (1935)

It is now becoming as if it is superfluous to prove how important nutrition is in the treatment of diseases not only of the gastrointestinal tract, but of all other organs and systems. Nutrition is beginning to take its place in therapy as a key therapeutic factor, which justifies the term "therapeutic nutrition".

Case that served as the source material for the report by Prof. I.P. Vasilyev and Ass. N.S. Podolsky, is of such great interest that I allow myself to dwell a little more on his clinical analysis. The unexpected outcome was the reason why I had to make a diagnostic analysis of the case only before the autopsy, based on data that was not complete enough, part of which needed to be checked. There are also details in the case where personal impressions are extremely important for understanding.

Simple uncomplicated forms of congenital heart disease in adults - pulmonary artery stenosis, non-healing of the Botall's duct - although they are a rarity, still studied more or less enough, and their lifelong recognition is not particularly difficult. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of another heart anomaly, a ventricular septal defect.

The study of the tularemia clinic in recent years has increasingly expanded our understanding of the disease. The works of American authors, based on more than 3,500 cases, descriptions in other countries (Japan, the USSR, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Tunisia) allow us to give an overview of the characteristics of this disease. It should be emphasized that tularemia in the USSR differs from the descriptions of the authors in the above-mentioned countries and is characterized by a milder form and a small mortality rate.

Dietary prescriptions have long occupied a prominent place in the treatment of rickets, undergoing changes over time depending on changes in views on the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease. As early as 250 years ago in Glisson’s, and later in Czerny and Keller’a et al. It is noted that overfeeding, both naturally and artificially fed children leads to the development of the disease; on the other hand, malnourished children (due to malnutrition or illness) almost never suffer from rickets.

Surgery, as one of the branches of practical medicine, along with clinical methods of studying the pathology of the organism, cannot but use the experience of modern biological laws that establish the properties of a living organism. One of the most important functions of the body is to maintain the balance of H and ONions, so the study of alkaline-acid balance in the surgical clinic is of great importance. It is important for the body to maintain the constancy of the active response needed by each cell and each organ.

Experimental studies and clinical observations of the Central Institute of Hematology and its branch have provided a solid basis for the method of blood preservation. The next successive stage of work on this issue is the study of blood transport conditions and improvement of transfusion equipment, which must meet most of its requirements: portability of its device, simplicity of blood production, satisfactory safety, better preservation conditions, reliable blood transportation.

The study of methods of surgical sterilization of women led us to the conclusion that we need a method of sterilization in which the disturbed lumen of the tube could not gape, would not disturb the syntopy of the uterus and appendages and would not remain foreign bodies (ligatures).

For more than 30 years, Vidal's reaction has been generally recognized by clinicians as a reliable method for serodiagnosis of typhoid fever. Recent years, however, have introduced a significant reservation in the assessment of its diagnostic advantages, which mainly depends on the fact that the Vidal reaction is positive in persons who have undergone anti-typhoid vaccinations. In view of this, I would like to share our clinical material and compare it with the literature data to draw the appropriate conclusions.

In the etiology of acute rectal prolapse in children, various inflammatory bowel diseases play a major role, accompanied by intensified tenesmus and, with a considerable duration, leading to a weakening of both the whole organism and to a weakening of the tone of the anatomical formations of the perineal-anorectal region. The weakening of this tone can be the cause of acute prolapse of the rectum in children who have not suffered from intestinal disorders before - a sudden tension of the abdominal press when coughing or crying is enough.

This disease was first noted by Lutz (1891), who observed it among the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands. Iеanselme, observing it among the natives in Indo-China, described it under the name "Nodosités juxta articulaires". Until 1920, the latter was considered a disease of exclusively tropical countries. All the cases described before 1920 concerned almost exclusively the natives and only in some cases Europeans who have lived in the tropics for a long time.

All of us were brought here by those common feelings that arouses in every cultured person the name of our great compatriot I.P. Pavlov - boundless gratitude for the great services that Pavlov rendered to humanity with his brilliant research, the deepest respect for him as a tireless teacher and leader in scientific activity of the overwhelming majority of our physiologists and clinicians and admiration for his enormous talent and inexhaustible energy. Pavlov is a figure of exceptional strength not only in the history of ours, but also in world science.

he bulletin contains works on rheumatism, which were supposed to serve as the subject of a report at the last antirheumatic congress.

The appearance of this lavishly published work is an event in endocrinological literature. Suffice it to say that nowhere can one find such a complete reflection of the work of Italian scientists in this field. The book cites more than 1,000 Italian authors, but also authors from other countries are not forgotten.

After a 10-year hiatus, the well-known manual, compiled by the most prominent representatives of X-ray diagnostics, began to appear in the 5th edition, which differs in many respects from the previous one, since it reflects tremendous achievements in the field of physics, technology and diagnostics of X-rays recent years.

In experiments on 2 dogs with Eck fistula, Lebedinskaya received a 5-6-fold increase in the amount of acorn juice in response to milk, an increase in the duration of secretion, an increase in acidity (up to 0.62%) and a decrease in the digestive power of juice.

A soapy solution is often used for enemas. In this case, relatively often, soap passes into the circulation.

A. set himself the goal of finding such conditions under which the addition of an acid or alkali would enhance, in isolation, one or another manifestation of antiserum.

Exantine is an extract in a physiological solution from Proteus x19. When injected intracutaneously, it gives a local inflammatory response in rabbits, guinea pigs and non-symphoid individuals.

A. used in his work the original Zonnenschein bacteriophage (F. B. So), which, according to the latter, has a pronounced specificity in relation to V. Shotmüller's paratyphoid bacteria.

Thanks to the work of Vitebsky and Behrens, it became known that within the neuroectoderm itself it is possible to detect immunospecific structural differences that indicate a certain organ, possibly a functionally specific imprint of individual parts of the tissue of the central nervous system.

A number of recent works have shown the predominant value of Sp. pallida in the formation of Wa-reagins, as well as the high sensitivity and specificity of the antigen from these spirochetes in the experiment of complement binding by the serum of syphilitics (Klopstock, Blumenthal, Hecht, Geltser and Popov, Getgens, Markardt), therefore the authors considered it expedient to study the possibility of using the antigen from pale spirochetes for serodiagnosis of syphilis.

A. managed to obtain a highly effective vaccine against Weil's disease.

Herms' article should be of interest to the phthisiatricians of our Union for the very reason that the views of the author and the new measures he recommends coincide in many respects with the premises and practice that have been expressed and used in our country over the past years with almost the same indications and the same surgical methods of treatment (Prozorovskaya sanatorium - Stoyko, tubinstitutes - Einis, Garmson).

The authors report immediate complications when using artificial pneimothorax (i.p.) based on the processing of questionnaire material for more than 250,000 injections made by doctors in Swiss sanatoriums.

The author describes the malignant transformation of stomach ulcers as the most serious complication that can still be eliminated in many cases through early diagnosis and preventive treatment. The diagnosis of malignant ulcer transformation is extremely difficult. Often this is determined only by the corresponding clinical symptoms of stomach cancer, but, unfortunately, at this moment it is already too late to operate.

Injection of 10 сс 1% Novocain in the right cervical ganglion stellatum gives excellent therapeutic effects in cases of angina pectoris, bronchial asthma and various algias in the upper limbs.

Based on a study of the literature on metaplasia, Dr Baer concludes that the epithelium of the trachea is metaplasized in certain pathological conditions of the respiratory tract, namely, lutetic and tuberculosis tumours of the trachea, influenza and chronic cannulae.

Proff. Krainz and Lang believe that subjective complaints of patients are least important for the recognition of chronic tonsillitis. Objective signs of chronic tonsillitis are sensitivity to pressure on the lacunae of the tonsils and hardening of the amygdala base, which is detectable when palpating from the outside.

In childhood, exfoliation of the tonsils is indicated for stenosing hypertrophied tonsils, then with repeated tonsillitis, tonsil abscesses, with articular rheumatism (to prevent complications from the heart).

Boisseau and Nodenot vaccinated over 1,500 allergy-free natives of various ages at Brazzaville.

Between 1924 and 1933, 479 cases of diphtheria passed through the Children's Clinic of the Kyoto Medical Academy, representing 6% of all children who passed through, with diphtheria accounting for 4.4% in the first 4 years (1924-1928) and 7.2% in the next 4 years (1929-1933), i.e. diphtheria is gradually increasing.

The author, who took part in the last World War as a zoologist (entomologist), believes that successful pest control, particularly of lice, is only possible through a thorough study of the biological and ecological properties of these pests, has achieved the opening of an entomological military field laboratory, the first of its kind in the history of military medicine in general.

In terms of the number of reported plague cases in 1934, the following places are particularly notable: in British India there were 5,7005 cases of plague from 1 January to 21 July and 3,695 deaths from it. Next in line is the Netherlands, where 9913 cases and 9898 deaths were recorded between the beginning of the year and 21 April. Finally, until 30 July, there were 1679 cases and 1672 deaths on Madagascar.

D-r Lipp has proposed Albacit, a new protein determinant in urine, which is a powdered substance that is based on Metadioxylbenzol. Albacit is well preserved, easily soluble in water and urine, it is portable and can be stored in a glass tube, in which pills are stored and always carried. It is easy to use, even when visiting a patient at home, in an outpatient clinic, etc.

On 23 November 1934, the Military Medical Academy of the Red Army solemnly honoured one of its most prominent professors, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Aristovsky, head of the Department of Microbiology, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of medical, social and scientific and pedagogical activities.

The article provides basic information on medical conferences and congresses to be held in 1935.