Vol 31, No 5 (1935)

The victory of the October Revolution, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and freed millions of workers from capitalist exploitation, destroyed the main causes of poverty, hunger, high morbidity and mortality, and created decisive conditions for the correct and fundamental resolution of the national issue.

The historic date marking the beginning of the organised struggle against orthopaedic deformities in Kazan, and later in the whole of Tatarstan, should be considered November 1, 1918, when the Kazan Provincial Social Security Department established the Orthopaedic Institute with a 40-bed hospital and prosthetic workshop. This institution was transferred to the Kazan Provincial Department of Health in 1920 and joined, as an Orthopaedic Clinic, the Clinical Institute, which was founded in the same year and later became the State Institute for the Advanced Studies of Doctors named after V.I. Lenin.

When we talk about the achievements in physiotherapy in the Tatar Republic over the past 15 years, we must not forget that this is basically its first 15 years. This date coincides with the birth of the State Institute for the Advanced Training of Doctors, which established the Physiotherapy Clinic, the second oldest in the Union, which was the basis for the development of physiotherapy in the Tatar Republic. Before that, mass physiotherapy was out of the question: there was no physiotherapy at all on the periphery, and there was only one private water and electrotherapy clinic in Kazan, which served only the most materially wealthy segments of the population.

Soviet radiology is the brainchild of the October Revolution. Indeed, it was only after October that the attention of the party and government paid to this young discipline and its adherents and pioneers gave birth to something that did not exist before the 1917 revolution - radiology as a discipline, as a subject of teaching, as a new method of recognition and treatment in the Soviet Union's health care system.

If earlier it was believed that on the territory of the Tatar Republic the Izhevsk mineral spring is the only balneological representative, now, when the study of the productive forces of our region has begun to be widely conducted, we can outline a slightly different picture.

Now, as never before, a clear and precise knowledge of all indications and contraindications for referring certain categories of patients to each given resort is required. For Kislovodsk, the issue of the treatment of hypotensive patients is relevant.

Only 5-6 years ago, blood transfusion in the Soviet Union was carried out in the overwhelming majority of cases in the form of citrated blood from a donor. Numerous adaptations, modifications, special devices for direct blood transfusion from a donor have not found widespread use and, one might say, are quickly forgotten at the present time. The main disadvantage of a blood transfusion from a donor is that the donor, being the central figure in each individual blood transfusion, is time-consuming and often difficult to not only examine but also receive it at every necessary moment.

A number of issues relating to immunity, the course of the disease with TB meningitis and etiology are still unclear and require further study, despite the large number of activities in this area. Of particular interest is the reactivity of an organism with TB meningitis when injecting Koch's tuberculin.

Among the numerous and varied forms of traumatic injuries of the spine, fractures — separations of the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae — are relatively rare. In the pre-X-ray time, such injuries were almost never diagnosed, and even now they are not always recognized in a timely manner. Such patients often walk for a long time with their suffering under the diagnosis: lumbodynia, distortion, etc. Due to the fact that the objective phenomena in this case may be insignificant, constant complaints and appeals of such patients to doctors are very often interpreted as aggravation or simulation, until the radiography, and sometimes repeated, does not reveal a fracture of one or several transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae.

The etiology of pubic symphysis ruptures is twofold. Puerperal ruptures are most often observed, exclusively, of course, in adults, with various types of forced permission, for example, when removing the fetus with forceps. Such breaks during childbirth can occur during arbitrary childbirth, the so-called spontaneous (23%), and even after childbirth.

Over the past decades, about 300 cases of optic nerve neoplasms have been described in the literature. It was assumed that some of them grew from the sheath of the nerve, but most of them originated from their own nerve trunk. The histological structure of tumors of the latter kind was determined in different ways, less than a third of them were considered as gliomas, some as neuromas and the rest as tumors of a mesodermal nature.

The rare development of cancer in a short time at the site of injury prompted us to publish a case of cancer observed in the skin department of the clinic that developed at the site of an injection with a stem of grass.

The IX All-Union Congress was ceremonially opened on 9 March 1935 at 7 p.m. in the column hall of the House of Unions, full of delegates and guests, by electing honorary and working presidiums. The entire Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), Krupskaya, Gorky and Telman were elected to the Honorary Presidium of the Congress in applause. Honoured Science Worker Prof. V.S.Gruzdev (Kazan) is elected Chairman of the Congress to a loud applause.

Among the neurological works published recently in our Union, one of the first places should be given to the monographs of prof. I.I. Rusetsky - "Knee reflex".

In the literature there are reports that the majority of sera from patients with rheumatism agglutinate hemolytic streptococci at 55°.

The author studied in detail 80 strains in typhi flavum isolated from various sources (stool, urine, blood of typhoid fever patients, water, animal oil, nasal mucus, and air in various rooms).

Isolation of L. ictero haemorrhagiae from water is very difficult due to the constant presence of harmless L. pseudo-icterogenes, which has a clearly antagonistic effect on the former.

Inhalation of a mixture of carbonic acid (CO2) with oxygen (O2) was used by Henderson (1934) to reduce cough and shortness of breath. Excessive coughing causes the development of laryngeal tuberculosis, emphysema, spontaneous pneumothorax, hemoptysis, vomiting, insomnia, fever, shortness of breath, cyanosis, chest pain.

The causative agent is in most cases in the form of spores in almond crypts and gum holes. A runny nose and subsequent bronchitis caused by a cold activate the spores. Many elderly people suffer from long winter cataracts, which exhaust them so much that they die by the end of winter.

The author gives 3 cases of successful treatment of ureteral fistulas by X-ray examination of the kidneys.

To facilitate ligation of vessels in the depths of the operating field, the author designed a final corongue with a ligature held in a special groove on the periphery. When this tool is brought to the styptic clamp, the ligature does not slide off the end of the endgame ligature and the bleeding vessel can be tied tightly.

The author proposes, in case of a difficult-to-tighten abdominal wall due to poor sleep of the patient and strong protrusion of the intestinal loops, to insert a rubber finger with a catheter at the end through which it is possible to inflate a rubber finger with the number of need into the wound, to clamp the catheter and avoid injury to the intestines and the seizure of the omentum when suturing the peritoneum.

A 36-year-old, re-pregnant patient, in the first months of her last pregnancy, there is a rapid growth of cancer of the left breast.

Action: 1) purely local on tissue metabolism and blood vessels, 2) general, in a circular way on the ovaries and corpus luteum. Method of application - lubrication of erosion with a brush or tamponade, and recently used insulin tablets.

The author recommends secal.corn. in inflammatory conditions of the genital area, characterized by often insufficient tone of the muscles of the uterus.

Dr. Tikhonravova. About congenital family cataracts. Assoc. Enaleev. — On Some Data of Bacterium Granulosis. Assoc. Weiss. - About a new modification of the surgery against bloat and trachiasis. Ass. Chubukov. - About the conference on physiological optics. Ass. Blitstein. Ulcus rodens corneae.

The All-Ukrainian Congress of Surgeons will be held in Odessa in June 1936.