Vol 36, No 5 (1940)

Until the etiology and pathogenesis of gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers are accurately established, it is difficult to talk about the development and selection of a completely rational and completely scientifically substantiated method of treating these diseases. It must be admitted that surgical treatment is not causal in relation to gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer. It is aimed at the ulcer or its consequences, as a local process.

Gastro-colon fistula as a rare complication of stomach cancer, tuberculous peritonitis and stomach abscess was described by Murchinson in 1857. The author found in the literature for 300 years only 33 cases of such fistulas. Most of the cases arose on the basis of gastric cancer, which grew into the transverse colon and gave, after disintegration in the center, a fistula between the stomach and intestine.

The most popular and very convenient plastic material for replacing defects in the lower part of the nose is the auricle, pieces of which are equally readily used either in the form of free plastic or for transplantation using the feeding stem.

In the modern therapeutic clinic, among the differential diagnostic issues, the issues of pulmonary tuberculosis are of paramount importance; and among the latter, paragilus tuberculosis comes to the fore, as a difficult to diagnose, relatively benign, rather easily treatable form, which is at the same time the starting point for all subsequent more malignant forms of pulmonary tuberculosis.

The extensive surgical literature on breast diseases concerns mainly malignant tumors; to a lesser extent - acute inflammatory processes and a number of other diseases of the gland (syphilis, echinococcus, and even benign tumors) are not sufficiently covered.

The first indication of a tumor of this kind we meet in the case observed by Meckel and described in the dissertation of Gerasimus Constantinus de Gregorini in 1795 under the name of uterine hydatid.

Treatment of incomplete miscarriages seems to be one of the most pressing issues of modern obstetrics.

Until recent years, the treatment of giardiasis, which is widespread in humans and animals, seemed extremely disappointing.

One of the complications of peptic ulcer disease is life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding, which gives, both with conservative treatment and with surgery, for most surgeons - the percentage of mortality, calculated in the tens, has not yet received any definite, strictly established principle of "treatment".

Bang's disease (brucellosis), while not widespread, nevertheless often occurs in a number of regions of the Soviet Union (Western Siberia, the Urals, the Lower Volga, etc.).

State published by the BSSR. Minsk, 1938, 291 pages of text and 159 st. drawings. Price 8 rubles. 50 kopecks

In July 1940, at the age of 76, one of the oldest surgeons of the Volga region, Pavel Petrovich Sementovsky, died