Vol 31, No 11-12 (1935)

Recently, a century has passed since the founding of the Obstetric and Gynecological Clinic — formerly Kazan University, now — Kazan Medical Institute. In the near future, 70 years of life and 45 years of scientific, pedagogical, medical and social activities of the Honored Scientist of Professor V.S.Gruzdev will be celebrated.

Although the number of registered occupational cancers is not particularly large, nevertheless the problem of occupational cancer is one of the most urgent in occupational pathology.

Since the introduction of duodenal probing into the clinic by Eingorn (in America) in 1910, the latter has been widely used for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. By injecting various substances into the duodenum through a duodenal probe it is possible to induce a gallbladder reflex, resulting in the extraction of gallbladder bile, known as B.

Osteoplastic fixation of the spine with its tuberculous lesion is an operation aimed at accelerating the localization of the infectious focus in the vertebrae with the help of surgical measures designed to ankylosing the arch of the spine. This is the very process that is the natural biological reaction of the body in this disease. The operation activates it.

The treatment of acute condylomas with quartz is a new issue, so we feel it is necessary to share the results of this treatment. We have observed two cases.

The aim of the present work is to try to establish the effect of the hypnotic state on the process of active attention. While there is some data on the effects of hypnosis on mental functions in general, we have found little in the old literature on the effects of hypnosis on attention and its improvement after hypnotic sleep.

The problem of tumor growth is currently closely related to the study of physicochemical changes occurring in the cell. A lot of research has been done along this path and interesting features of tumor cells have been noted.

Herzen, Napalkov believe that pericardial pouch wounds, without wounding of the heart, are of exceptional scientific and practical interest. According to Chugaev's compilation of statistics, 27 cases were noted in the world literature until 1901. According to the material of the Obukhov Hospital up to 1927 there are 10 cases and Dr. Irger (H. X. A., No. 57, 1928) describes two cases of pericardial pouch wound without injury to the heart, both with a fatal outcome. In most cases pericardial pouch wounds also involve damage to the pleura and lung. In our case, there was a cut wound to the thorax, with damage to the pleura, lung and pericardial sac.

Often accompanied by severe pain and occasional disconnection from the workplace, inflammatory skin diseases have long pushed the medical profession to find the most effective way of treating them. Among the various methods of treatment, X-rays are not the least of these. We do not intend to cite the extensive literature available on the subject, but only refer to our observations.

If we consider the commanding position which the pituitary gland according to modern views occupies in the system of endocrine glands, and compare this with the role which many endocrine glands play in metabolism, then numerous attempts to isolate from the pituitary gland special hormones regulating metabolism will be completely understandable and natural. The search for special metabolic hormones in the pituitary gland is all the more justified because a number of clinical facts have directly suggested the involvement of the pituitary gland in metabolism.

During the period 1929-1934 great work on the study of endemic goitre in the Urals was done with the participation of Dr. V.A. Lyapustin, editor of these two collections, and a number of major specialists not only from Sverdlovsk, but also from Perm and Kazan, prof. В. V. Miloslavsky, V. S. Zimnitsky, I. A. Remezov, and others.

This book contains a number of articles on topical issues related to bronchial asthma.

The author was able to obtain a serum against the polio virus by immunizing a ram. Immunization was carried out using a 2% virus suspension mixed with the filtrate.

The authors found that removing lipoids from type I horse antipneumococcal sera does not alter their protective properties.

The author worked on mice, infecting them with avian tuberculosis, since according to preliminary studies it turned out that this strain gives much less individual fluctuations than human and bovine tuberculosis.

The author checked on a large material the position existing in the literature that trypanosomes from the brucei-rhodesiense-gambiense group lose their ability to develop in the carrier's body after long-term cultivation on media with blood. The study was carried out both on very old laboratory strains and on younger ones.

The authors found that both natural and artificial infection with Tr. brucei and congolense resulted in increased rhodanan content in the blood of calves, goats, dogs and horses. This increased rhodanan content is the result of increased protein breakdown in the body under the influence of trypanosome infection.

The new arsenic preparation Solu-salvarsan (3-acetyloamino-4-oxybenzolarseno-4'-acetylamino-2'-phenoxy-acetic acid sodium) is currently being successfully used in the treatment of syphilis. The authors studied the organotropy and excretory capacity of the mouse and rabbit organism in relation to this drug.

For 4 years now, the author has been performing amputations in the middle third of the thigh in the following way: first, with a longitudinal incision in a typical place, he exposes art. et vena femoralis and ligates them. He then continues the lower edge of the incision in two directions forward and backward, forming 2 flaps. After the preparation of the flaps, the muscles are cut, the sciatic nerve is dissected and the bone is cut.

In 1921, Jedlick published a new method of surgery for pancreatic cysts by implanting a cyst funnel into the posterior gastric wall. In the case of Polak E., a 45-year-old man had a true pancreas cyst that developed 8 months after gastric resection for ulcers.

Statistics from Viennese surgical clinics suggest that post-operative embolisms have increased in recent years. Although many assumptions and theories have been made about their causes, the issue has not yet been definitively clarified.

In recent years, paravenous infiltrates have become more common after unsuccessful intravenous infusions. Apart from the fact that this is followed by severe pain, which often discourages patients from continuing such treatment, it is also important that a complication such as a paravenous infiltrate often incapacitates the patient for several days.

In the administrative part of the meeting Prof. V. Gruzdev reported on the forthcoming reorganisation of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Section of the ATSSR Scientific-Medical Association into a branch of the All-Russian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society and proposed the election of a Presidium of the branch.

Prof. M.O. Frindland asked the audience to report all cases of deformities of newborns, such as congenital dislocations of the hip joints, clubfoot, spina bifida, to the Tatar Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology.

Dr. G. M. Sharafutdinov gave a presentation on "The chemical and hormonal composition and clinical application of gravidan".

On October 5-8 this year, the first scientific session of the Ural Psychoneurological Institute took place in Perm. The session was devoted to the question of exogenous forms of neuropsychological diseases, which is very topical in modern neuropsychiatry.

The VI All-Ukrainian Congress of Surgeons will take place in Odessa in 1936 from 25 to 29 June inclusive. The opening of the congress and a friendly meeting will take place in the evening of 24 June.