Vol 31, No 10 (1935)

There is no doubt that workers involved in the preparation and distribution of food and products must be completely healthy - they must not have infectious diseases (sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, trachoma, gastrointestinal, etc.) and must not be carriers of bacilli. Particularly great attention is paid to the typhoid-paratyphoid bacillus. But almost no attention is paid to helminthiasis among workers in the food processing unit.

The issue of resorption in the stomach has not been sufficiently developed to date. Moreover, this issue has been little studied in various gastric diseases.

The clinical picture and therapy of chronic enterocolitis is undoubtedly one of the most difficult chapters in the pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. These difficulties are further aggravated by the fact that it is often necessary to treat these patients on an outpatient basis, which does not allow for a thorough clinical examination. Meanwhile, the study of the pathogenesis of each individual case to a certain extent provides and predetermines the success of therapeutic intervention.

Pneumonia, especially the typical one, is considered a relatively benign acute illness. Let us recall Stryumpel's catchphrase that pneumonia goes away with any treatment or even in spite of treatment. However, daily clinical experience teaches us that in many cases of atypical, protracted, complicated pneumonia, only timely intervention can save the patient's life.

Despite the large number of studies published so far on side cysts and fistulas of the neck, the issue of genesis and the clinic for these diseases remains far from being resolved.

Undoubtedly, in the group of causes of death, called "maternal mortality", the main role - from 40 to 70% - is played by mortality from sepsis. However, it should be borne in mind that this mortality is caused by two completely different reasons: 1) postpartum sepsis complicates the essentially normal process of childbirth and should be controlled through social preventive measures during pregnancy, clinical obstetrics, etc. and 2) sepsis after abortion depends in the vast majority of cases on abortion, and the fight against it should to be in the fight against expulsion.

With the introduction of the Oto-rino-laryngological frontal reflector and laryngoscopic mirror (1854), a good and easily movable light source was needed. Electric light has many advantages, but in pre-revolutionary times it was only available in larger or smaller centres. With the implementation of the country's general plan for electrification, there is now an increasing opportunity for an otolaryngologist to use electric light in his or her work.

An unfavourable prediction of syphilitic aortic lesion is due to its late diagnosis. The key to the success of therapy is in early diagnosis of s. a., when there are no persistent anatomical changes and the main clinical signs have not yet developed. The initial forms of s. a. have been disguised for a long time, distinguishing them from other vascular lesions which symptoms are usually quite definite.

At the final meeting of the XIV Congress of Physiologists in Rome in 1932, the proposal of Academician I.P. Pavlov was adopted to convene the XV Congress in the USSR in 1935. From August 8 to 18, the Congress met in Leningrad, and its final meeting was held in Moscow.

Malariotherapy was definitely lucky in the USSR. After Minkovich's brilliant book on the malarial treatment of neurology and other diseases, Malkin's no less brilliant monograph on malarial therapy of neuropsychic diseases was published in a short period of time.

The author has proven that pseudorabies is a very common disease in pigs in western Central America. He studied the content of the corresponding antibodies in the sera of pigs. He examined samples of sera from pigs hyperimmunized against pig cholera.

This work is the first in a whole series of works that the authors have undertaken to study this problem. To obtain elementary bodies, white rabbits were infected into the skin with a thick suspension of dermovaccine.

The weakening of virulence with frequent reseeding was possible to ascertain in those strains that had long been grown in the laboratory. Freshly harvested crops were found to be more resistant.

The presence of isohemolysin in adults was proved as early as 1905 by Landsteiner and Leiner. In newborns, a systematic study of this phenomenon has not yet been carried out, and the author, for the first time putting this issue on the agenda, showed that out of 112 examined newborns, 28 (25.6%) contained isohemolysin in the blood of the umbilical vein.

The authors studied the question raised by them for one year and came to the following conclusions. 1) The malaria parasite can overwinter in the body of a mosquito and in these cases is detected when the insect is dissected. 2) The infectivity of mosquitoes in winter is higher than in summer. 3) Infected An. maculipennis contain predominantly sporozoids and can therefore infect humans during winter and spring.

Experiments have shown that in syphilitic mice, the infection is not transmitted either sexually or through the placenta, and the young remain completely healthy even when the mother is sick with syphilis.

Until now, it was believed that glycerin quickly destroys the typhus virus. The authors showed that destruction does not take place at low temperatures and recommend preserving the typhus virus by placing infected virulent pieces of organs in a test tube with glycerol and preserving it in a freezing apparatus at 12-15° below zero.

The authors drew attention back in 1931 to the existence of a prehypophyseal hormone capable of raising ketonemia in animals and humans, which the body produces as soon as fats are ingested or when reserve fat is mobilized during fasting. The authors called this hormone the prehypophyseal hormone of fat metabolism.

The author cites 2 cases of perforated gastric ulcer in newborns, one with perforation and congenital obstruction of the Bauginia valve, the other with two perforations, with the second perforation occurring after surgery.

Each case of gastric ulcer should be individually studied and treatment should be appropriate for the type of ulcer, its development, response to treatment, age and general condition of the patient.

Prior to the present work, all authors who studied the issue of fingerprinting argued that fingerprints are constant throughout life and no disease is able to change them. The author studied a series of patients in Rio de Janeiro and came to the conclusion that leprosy is capable of altering and even completely destroying a fingerprint drawing.

Meetings of medical societies. Scientific Medical Association of the ATSSR. Surgical section. Meeting on May 21, 1936.

S. B. Yenaleev was appointed Director of the Kazan State Medical Institute.