Vol 26, No 12 (1930)

December 1 p. at 11 o'clock in the afternoon the prof. Mikhail Semenovich Pilnov, Director of the Skin and Venereal Clinic b. Kazan University, now the Medical Institute.

Recently, as you know, much attention has been paid to physicochemical factors in all areas of medicine and biology. Of particular interest in the course of the body's life processes is the study of the active reaction of the blood, which is understood as the concentration of hydrogen ions — Pn (Pfaundler, etc.).

In recent years, scarlet fever has received a lot of attention. Although the question of the etiology has not been finally resolved to the present time, it must be admitted that the fact that hemolytic streptococcus plays an exceptional role in the pathogenesis of scarlet fever must be recognized as undeniable. Let the question of the etiology of scarlet fever have not yet been resolved, but measures to combat scarlet fever, directed mainly against hemolytic streptococcus (antitoxic serum), have practically justified themselves. Anti-scarlet fever serum has given excellent results in the treatment of toxic forms of scarlet fever, but the failure of its use in severe septic cases, the lack of a full guarantee in preventing the appearance of scarlet fever complications and its impotence in the treatment of complications that have already occurred, makes us still consider the problem of treating scarlet fever unresolved and look also other ways to treat scarlet fever and prevent its complications.

Paraguinal hernias include hernias of the inguinal region, which, like oblique hernias, exit the abdominal cavity through the internal opening of the inguinal canal, pass the latter, but exit not through the external opening, but away from it through the slit of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. These gaps in the aponeurosis are located between the arcuate fibers, rounding the outer opening of the inguinal canal, then on the median or lateral leg of the inguinal opening.

Lupus (lupus vulgaris) is currently attracting the attention of dermatologists for many reasons, of which it is necessary to note the social and social significance of the issue, the frequency of the lesion and its consequences, as well as the extremely chronic course of the disease, the persistence and ingratitude of this suffering in relation to therapy.

One very serious complication after stomach surgery is undoubtedly peptic ulcers. Their feature is their tendency to perforation, more often in the transverse colon, less often in the free abdominal cavity. This last position, that is, perforation into the free abdominal cavity, is confirmed by the literature data, for example, Eiselsberg described 2 cases, Sholkov - 2 cases, Briitt - 2 cases, Abrumyanu - 1 cases, Konechny - 2 sl., Uspensky — 1 sl, Clinic prof. Razumovsky - 2 words. etc.

A hernia of a pregnant uterus is considered quite rare. This gives us the right to describe one such case that we encountered in our district practice. Patient Sh. M., 43 years old, a peasant woman, was admitted to the Zainskaya hospital with a complaint of a tumor in the right groin area and slight dark spotting from the genital tract. The tumor appeared two years ago. At first, it was small and painless, appeared when straining and freely refueled. Recently, the tumor has increased, a week before Sh. Was admitted to the hospital, she stopped refueling and became painful.

The general interest that has been shown in recent years to the cancer problem in general, and in particular to primary lung cancer (PRL), will be quite understandable if only brief information about the almost universal growth of this disease is given. So, according to Davydov a (Moscow), for 1910-14. PRL met in relation to: 1 case. for 400 autopsies and gradually increasing. reached in 1924-27. ratios 1:60 sup. According to statistics from Berblinger'a (Jena), in 1910-14. the ratio was 1: 294 open., and in 1920-24. already 1: 100.

Abstracts. General pathology and bacteriology. Gsell (in the article Miliare generalisierte Granulomatose m. Eingelagertem Amyloid — Ziegl. Beitr. 1928, Bd. 81, H. 1-2) reports a case of atypical lymphogranulomatosis in 53 y. man The disease lasted for about a year and with symptoms of heart weakness and icterus led to death. On the section in the lungs there is a peculiar picture, very similar to the miliary tbc, in the spleen changes typical for lymphogranulomatosis, in the liver the nodes are lim.-gr. resembled metastases of a malignant neoplasm. Microscopically peculiar picture of lim.gr. with miliary generalization and with secondary deposition of amyloid-like substance.

Abstracts. General pathology and bacteriology. Kikuth. Bartonella canis (Zbl. F. Bakter. Bd. 113, H. 1/4). Mayer and Kikuth, then Noguchi found with verruga peruviana and Oroyafieber in red roofs, balls of Bartonella bacilliformis. Also, with infectious anemia of rats, it was possible to find the pathogen Bartonella muris.

Abstracts. Internal illnesses. Heart in chronic respiratory diseases according to prof. Lurdwig'y Braun'y (Die arztliche Praxis, No. 2-1930) undergoes secondary changes in the following sequence: right ventricular hypertrophy, its dilation, right atrial hypertrophy, its dilation, and finally, or at the same time, left heart hypertrophy with its subsequent dilation.

Abstracts. Internal illnesses. Cholesterol and blood pressure. Westphal found 71% of high blood pressure cases with elevated blood cholesterol. Askenazy found the same thing. Thomas, injecting cholesterol into rabbits, observed an increase in blood pressure.

Abstracts. Surgery. Fatal pulmonary hemorrhage three days after phrenicoexeresis. Th. Naegeli (Zntrlbl. F. Chir. 1930. No. 48) observed a case of fatal pulmonary hemorrhage after the operation of phrenicoekzeresis for right-sided pulmonary tuberculosis. The cause of the bleeding was the perforation of the branch of the pulmonary artery by a foreign body, a bronchial stone. Autopsy revealed no pulmonary tuberculosis.

Abstracts. Surgery. About the treatment of empiem in infants J. Erdely (Zntrlbl. F. Chir. 1930. No. 48), in 6 cases. successfully treated empiema in infants by resection of the 8th rib 8 cm long with a midline along the posterior axillary line. The wounds were covered with a bandage with sterile petroleum jelly, and the next day, puncture removed 100 k. From. pus, also on the third — 200 to. page. After 3 days, at the site of the former puncture with a scalpel, he made a hole in the pleura 1 cm in size and drained it. All days after the operation, serious attention is paid to the general condition of the child and salt and glucose are injected under the skin.

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Spielmeyer W. (The journal of Nervous and Mental Disease voL 72, No. 3, September 1930) briefly discusses the problem of the anatomy of schizophrenia. Anatomical changes in the brain in typical cases of schizophrenia consist in the disappearance of cells in the third layer of the cortex and in its deeper layers, sometimes with an extreme accumulation of fat. In the acute stages, there are destructive phenomena of the nervous tissue with progressive and regressive changes in glia and often abundant decay products.

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Ewald G. (Z. f. D. Ges. Neurol, u. Psychiatrie. Bd. 123. H. 2/3. 1930) warns against the complete fusion of the concept of "schizophrenia", a concept of purely psychological with the concept of dementia praecox. The tautological use of both terms is completely wrong, for the psychological study of the schizophrenic essence, of the reaction of experience, is not the study of the dementia praecox disease itself. Better to use dementia schizophrenica or with Kleist "schizophrenic defective psychoses" (schizophrene Defektpsychosen) as synonyms for dementia praecox.

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Prof. J. Lange and assistant professor E. Guttmann (Munch, m. W. 1930 No. 32) could establish in some cases the relationship between a neurotic state and anatomical abnormalities of the center, nervous. systems that the authors call "dystrophische Anomalien, status dystrophicus" and which in most cases were found in the form of spina bifida. In the cases investigated by the authors, spina bifida was detected radiographically and served, in their opinion, as an organic indicator of constitutional readiness for a neurotic disease, which was usually caused by a mental shock or other mental state. harmful phenomenon.

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