Vol 26, No 11 (1930)

A fairly large number of works have already been devoted to the question of the safety of BCG. It can be argued that the overwhelming majority of researchers (including us1) have undoubtedly established the practical harmlessness of this tuberculosis strain for various animals and humans. This harmlessness manifests itself not only in relation to a healthy animal organism, both an adult and a very young newborn, but also in relation to an organism artificially weakened by certain harmful moments.

Gasoline is widely used in some industries, and the literature quite often comes across indications of isolated and massive cases of poisoning of workers exposed to it. Hence, it is clear that researchers paid attention to the study of the effect of this poison on the body, and, mainly, the effect of acute (single) poisoning with gasoline was studied, both through a thorough study of individual cases of acute poisoning of workers, and by setting up appropriate experiments on animals.

Using deep, sliding and topographic palpation by the Glenard-Obraztsov-Gausman method, along with other parts of the gastrointestinal tract, in some cases it is possible to palpate the lesser curvature. The latest statistics of Gausmann's palpation data are as follows: greater curvature is palpable in 45-50% of colon transv. 60%, coecum 80%, pars coecalis ilei 85%, appendix 12-16%, pylorus and antrum pylori 25%, sigma 95%.

The treatment of the operating field with a 5% alcoholic solution of picric acid for only a little more than 1% of years came into use at the Faculty Surgical Clinic, displacing the treatment with iodine tincture that was used until then and completely gaining the sympathy of the staff. A little less than 1000 inpatient and large outpatient surgeries were performed during this period. After subtracting from this number of cases of purely purulent, as well as obviously contaminated (for example, amputations with extensive weakening of fabrics - tram and railway injuries), we got the figure 741, i.e., the total number of such operations that could be considered, if not absolutely, then at least relatively clean.

If we turn to the statistics of the removal of foreign bodies from the larynx and bronchi before and after the introduction of a bronchoscope, we will see the benefits of being able to use it, and hence, as a consequence, that not only a laryngologist, but also every doctor who is obliged to provide emergency care should be able to master the technique of tracheo-broncho-esophagoscopy.

It is known that the skin, in addition to other functions, has an important excretory function, which is of particular importance during pregnancy, when, due to the "restructuring" of the body, increased requirements are imposed on the excretory organs. Meanwhile, our knowledge of this important system in pregnant women is still very scanty. Studies of Scaglioni in our clinic of Dr. Sidorov showed a decrease in the part of the excretory function of the skin, which is commonly called perspiratio insensibilis, in a pregnant woman. A particularly sharp decrease in this function was found in pregnancy toxicosis.

Having become a trusted doctor of the insurance office, I came close to the question of the so-called "lumbago". Previously, I had little interest in him, although I had the misfortune to get sick with him myself. This happened, as usual, at the moment of lifting a great weight. Suddenly I felt back pain and inability to move. The only position in which I felt good was vertical. I absolutely could not lie and sit bent over. The disease went away within one week, leaving no inclination to recur. As a trusted physician, I encountered lumbago on a different plane. I had to make sure that lumbago refers to the so-called dubious diseases that do not have objective symptoms and therefore give shaky diagnoses and a fairly wide field for simulation. The attending physicians constantly told me that the lumbago is for them a kind of cross, that there is no way to establish the truth and reveal pretense with it. The study of the lumbago cases from the bulletins led me, however, to some rather important conclusions.

In view of the great interest that has been aroused recently by nasopharyngeal fibromas due to the desire to find among the numerous, often difficult and bloody methods of removing them, the simplest and most "humane" ways of surgical intervention, I will allow myself to publish two cases of these fibroids that we observed.

26/1 s / y. At 5 pm, citizen B. was admitted to the maternity ward of our hospital in childbirth. According to the admitted, the water ran out of her house. She considers herself pregnant at about 6 months.

Analyzing the current state of the treatment of syphilis, it is necessary to cancel a huge number of drugs proposed and introduced into the therapy of this disease: mercury, iodine, arsenic and its various derivatives, bismuth, which already has hundreds of patented drugs, and finally tellurium, cadmium, zinc, antimony, etc. If we add to the above a number of mixed drugs, then that chaotic arsenal of anti-syphilitic drugs will become even more pronounced, among which the practitioner wanders and eventually develops his own "template" of therapy.

(Letter to the editor in response to comrade D. Pravdin). The magazine "Varnitso" (No. 3/4) published an article by com. D. Pravdin "Among scientific workers", which mentioned my name. The paragraph in which my surname appears is literally the following: “The authors of the“ Problems of Biology and Pathology of Jews ”collection set themselves an equally ungrateful task of“ supplementing ”the party's policy in the field of health care theory and practice with a“ correction ”for racial pathology (see especially the editorial of the first Collection and an article by Prof. Grahn in the second Collection), which discovered, regardless of the conditions of production, labor, class (italics ours), a special racial pathology of the Jews. Not wanting to suspect the "purity" of the scientific intentions of individual participants in the Collections, we cannot fail to note that such quasi scientific excursions serve objectively as water for very dubious "mills", with which most of the participants in the Collections would probably not want to have anything in common ".

Bibliography and reviews. S. A. Yakobson, assistant professor "The history of zemstvo surgery in Moscow province." Essay on the history of Russian surgery. (With 6 portraits and 1 map of Moscow province.). 80 p. Moscow. 1930 Price 1-50 k. This small essay deserves full attention from the Soviet physician and the "general practitioner" and "prevention", it also deserves attention as a "piece of the history of medicine" of the pre-revolutionary period of zemstvo medicine close to us. "History of medicine" has now been introduced into the curriculum of higher Soviet medical education, as an introductory part to the "fundamentals of Soviet health care" in this context, the history of the nearest pre-revolutionary period of zemstvo medicine is of particular interest, in general, the "history of zemstvo medicine" in the context of historical and dialectical still does not have its own researchers! The history of zemstvo surgery is a special chapter of this general history, which covers the area of ​​"special" types of assistance to the population.

Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at Kazan State University. Meeting on May 28, 1930 dedicated to the memory of Prof. A. V. Favorsky I. S. Aluf. In memory of prof. A. V. Favorsky. Having noted the main biographical data, the speaker dwells on the characteristics of the deceased's scientific and teaching activities. In the scientific and pedagogical activity of AV, three periods can be distinguished: the first period embraces the time before business trips abroad, the second — overseas business trips, and the third — the time following business trips. The first period includes A. V.'s casuistic works on acromegaly and mercury polyneuritis and his dissertation “Materials on the question of spinal cord compression.

Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at Kazan State University. Meeting on May 28, 1930 dedicated to the memory of Prof. A. V. Favorsky T.I. Yudin. The problem of the character on which parania grows. Having noted the work of Genil-Perrin's "Les paranoiaques", the speaker agrees that in some cases paranoia, apparently, grows on the basis of "bovarism", as Genil-Perrin calls it. that is, a character similar to that described by Flaubert'oM in his novel "M-me Bovary." The speaker gives a history of the disease of the god, observed in the Kazan psycho, a clinic with a paranoid outbreak and with a character very close to the character of Emma Bovary Debate: M. Andreev and I. S. Aluf.

Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at Kazan State University. Meeting on May 28, 1930 dedicated to the memory of Prof. A. V. Favorsky N.I. Fedorov. On the casuistry of general alopecia areata. (Published in Kaz. Medical journal). Debate: I. I. Rusetsky.

Kazan Society of Radiologists and Radiologists. June 16, 1930 Rotshtein R.V. and Khaskina Z.V. To the X-ray diagnosis of gonorrhoid diseases of the urethra. In view of the fact that the usual methods of examining the urethra using bougie and urethroscope were insufficient, the speakers resorted to the X-ray method. The latter is still not widely used in urology. The speakers demonstrate a number of cases in which it was possible to clearly see the entire course, each anatomical and functional part of the urethra, and to establish any deviation from the norm (anomaly, stricture, displacement, expansion) on radiographs.

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