Vol 26, No 5-6 (1930)

The Faculty of Medicine can, together with the entire university, celebrate the 125th anniversary of its existence: already among the first teachers of the university there was I.P. Kamensky, a teacher of anatomy, physiology and forensic sciences. However, the complete division of the university into faculties took place only in 1813, and the first medical professors were I. O-Brown and F. H. Erdman. This year we had the 111th graduation of doctors from Kazan University.

(Memories).
Dr. med. N.F.Flerina.
In 1874, a young 20-year-old boy full of thirst for knowledge, good intentions and rosy hopes, with fear I crossed the threshold of my aima mater. 105 people entered the medical faculty, 40 of them completed the course, and 7 more joined us in subsequent courses. How and what did we learn in this old time?

(Based on the materials from the archive of the Department of Social Hygiene of Kazan University) ..

Another old doctor-populist and social activist, the glorious son of Kazan University, V Ladimir Nikolaevich Zolotnitsky, has passed away; left at a ripe old age - 77 years old, but continued to work almost until his last days. His work until his last days was to take an active interest in the life of the present and the past. In particular, he was keenly interested in the anniversary of our university. One of the first responded to my letter "To old doctors - citizens of Kazan" on the occasion of the anniversary with a request to send materials to the history of the university, VN was one of the first to respond. During January and February of this year, he corresponded with me; he delivered valuable materials about his life to our department , memories of the past, sent all his published works. He put me in touch with Prof. A?. V. Portugalov, the son of a scholar, writer - publicist, until the anniversary and will be a guest of honor at this university festival as the oldest student of the university. But the laws of biology decided otherwise: V.N.Zolotnitsky celebrated his 50th anniversary of medical and social activity, celebrated the 75th anniversary of his life, celebrated the formal historical date of the 125th anniversary of his university, but did not live 21/2 months before the solemn anniversary.

About A. D. Tsyurup.
In view of the significant closeness in illegal work with A.D. in his young years and knowing him as a person of exceptional value, I cannot but report some facts from his life.

About I.P. Cherushnikov.
Ivan Petrovich Cherushnikov worked simultaneously with me in Kazan as a member of the People's Will Party in the 80s. In Kazan, he was under supervision, having been transferred from another place of exile.
As a supervised person, he was always on the alert, waiting for searches at his place, and searches took place at his place in Kazan more than once. The surveillance of him was desperate, but he continued his illegal work all the time. All illegal literary novelties of non-local (not Kazan) origin were obtained through him. He also took an active part in local illegal publications, but the local investigation and the authorities had no evidence of this. Incidentally, with his participation, an illegal brochure (A. N. Bach) "Tsar-hunger" was published.

Professor of Embryology, Histology and Anatomy at the Imperial University of Tokyo.
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(Abstract).
The question of the movement of the palatine plates to this day is still the subject of lively discussion, which, however, has not yet led to a definite solution. The reason for this was a preparation of a pig embryo, 3 ml long, described by Dursu, in which one palatal plate was located next to the tongue, while the other lay on top of the tongue. Dursy thought this embryo was apparently pathological. In 1901. a second such case was published by His'om, suggesting that this embryo was in a normal physiological movement. His'a observation prompted many researchers to study this issue.

To talk about how, over the past two to three decades, interest in blood research has been rapidly increasing in various physiological and pathological conditions, it would mean repeating what has already become a commonplace. The figures below can serve as an illustration of the current state of affairs.

From a physiological point of view, the spleen has recently attracted special attention as a reserve reservoir of blood. In view of the ability to independently actively change — to a very large extent — its volume and blood circulation, the spleen is of no small importance as a factor that can significantly affect the overall blood circulation in the vascular system, as well as on the portal circulation.

Essential thrombopenia was called Verlhof's disease by Frаnk as a sign that there is either a decrease or disappearance of plates from the peripheral blood. The importance of the lack of plates for the diagnosis and pathogenesis of hemorrhagic diseases was especially emphasized by the American W. W. Duke in 1910 and Ghapk'om in 1915, and in 1917 Kaznelson'oM was proposed for the treatment of essential thrombopenia splenectomy. In connection with the work of Frank’a, Kaz- nelson’a and others on thrombopenia, numerous reports have appeared both in foreign and Russian literature. So, in the Russian literature, we found reports of splenectomy for essential thrombopenia of Gefter 1 case, Plavinsky 1 case, Shaak 2 cases, Levita 1 case, Costa 2 cases, Faerman 1 case. at the XVIII Congress of Ross, Klyucharev's surgeons 3 cases. and Herzen 1 case. Among foreign authors, we can cite M. Mohnzopidr, citing the author of Spencer, who collected 101 cases. splenectomy for essential thrombopenia.

Each gynecologist in his practice repeatedly had to be convinced of his powerlessness to save his patients from stubborn leucorrhoea, lasting for years, sometimes haunting them and acting on their psyche is extremely difficult. At the same time, thorough studies of the state of the genital area and no less thorough bacterioscopic studies of secretions from the genital canal do not provide a clue for explaining these phenomena, and very often, after futile attempts to treat such patients from alleged chronic gonorrhea, the origin of these secretions is attributed to anemia and other diseases of a general nature.

In the process of developing the question of the diagnostic value of the method of sperm cultures for gonorrhea, for the sake of completeness of my research, I had to test the method of sperm culture after centrifugation. This technique has already been tested on 65 patients by two Russian authors (Egiazarov and Matyukevich), I tested this method on 41 patients.

Of all the currently used types of surgical intervention in the treatment of pulmonary tbc, as you know, the most common and justified are actually 3 operations: a) virtually bloodless intervention - artificial pneumothorax (pneum.), B) almost bloodless and technically easy operation - frenico -exeresis and, finally, c) bloody, serious and technically difficult operation - extensive thoraco-plasty. Despite the significant difference in the technique of these operations, they are all based on one general idea — collapse therapy, that is, the desire to obtain a therapeutic effect by more or less significant compression and immobilization of the affected lung. I will not touch upon the technique and clinic of these operations here, but I will dwell briefly on the fundamental side of this method of treatment, on the essence of the action of collapse therapy (col. Ter.).

(To the results of the Plenum of the Central Presidium of Varnitso on May 4-5, 1930).,. P.K.Brodovsky. Questions about the choice of the path — to socialism or to the camp of its conscious and irresponsible enemies — are now being raised before various strata of the intelligentsia with unprecedented sharpness and persistence. V. Molotov. All attempts not to take one or the other side end in failure and scandals. V. Lenin. The starting point for discussing the tasks of our era is the understanding of this era as a historically inevitable period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, moreover, the task of the proletarian dictatorship is to build socialism — a comprehensive restructuring of the life of human society based on a new economy and technology. If we pose the question of how the intelligentsia relates and what part does the intelligentsia take in solving these problems of the epoch, then it will become clear to anyone who is even slightly familiar with the history of our revolution that it is impossible to give a general, sweeping answer to this question.

In connection with the anniversary of the Kazan University, the Department of Social Hygiene undertook the work "History of the Department of Hygiene of the Kazan University for 125 years." Placed in this issue “Kaz. med zhurn. "article" The first hygienist of the Kazan department Fyodor Kalaydovich "is the beginning of this work. In connection with the same anniversary, the Department of Social Hygiene turned to the medical press with a letter "To the old doctors of Kazan" (see No. I, K.M.Zh., 1929) with a request to deliver material to the history of the medical faculty of Kazan University. that (memories, works, photographs, etc.). This appeal is primarily directed to hygienists, sanitary doctors and community physicians. The department notes with satisfaction that responses to this appeal have begun to arrive.