Vol 33, No 6 (1937)

The literary works of Chabrol, Fissenger, Partiurier and others that have appeared abroad in recent years have made me recall some of my long-term observations, under which I will try to bring a hypothetical explanation.

The fight against rickets can and should be conducted in different ways. Since the main cause of rickets is a lack of vitamin D in the child's body, it is necessary first of all to provide children with the necessary amount of the appropriate vitamin in the fight against this disease. This can be done in various ways.

Blood transfusion for adults is widely used, and there is a lot of data in the Soviet medical literature that comprehensively covers this issue. Unfortunately, we are still lagging behind in the matter of blood transfusions to children. Meanwhile, for a child, especially for a young child, adult blood transfusion is a powerful therapeutic tool. The blood of an adult gives the child not only the missing red blood cells, but also immune bodies, with which the adult is in most cases richer than the child. Therefore, each blood transfusion of an adult to a child can be considered as a kind of immunotransfusion.

During October-November 1935, I had the opportunity to observe a number of cases of acute spontaneous infectious damage to the nervous system. The clinical picture in my cases was typical and presented no difficulties in diagnostic terms. The current was also typical. The interesting thing is that these cases were observed for a very short period of time, in the form of an outbreak. In addition, some cases represent the cerebellar localization of encephalitis. This form, judging by the literature data and my personal experience, is relatively rare. Even with acute multiple diseases of the nervous system such as encephalomyelitis, where we have many lesions in various parts of the brain and spinal cord, foci in the cerebellum are not so common. All the more rare are cases where we have an isolated or sharply predominant lesion of the cerebellum by an encephalitic process.

"Hypnosis is a state of partial sleep, which is based on the same physiological changes in the functional relations of the cortical elements as in natural sleep, and the different forms and degrees of the hypnotic state are due solely to differences in the distribution of these changes in individual cases." (Levenfeld).

Intrauterine interventions in the postpartum and early postpartum period (PP) are among the most serious operations in obstetrics, and the severity of the postoperative period depends on the nature of these interventions. Therefore, it becomes clear that a number of obstetricians are trying to classify intrauterine interventions and develop strictly defined indications for them.

The appearance in the press of the discussion article of the assoc. Kaplan is very useful for covering the issue I have raised, the content, polemical tone and categorical nature of this article involuntarily cause me two concerns. The first of them is that assoc. Kaplan, and maybe a number of readers of the Kazan Medical Journal, did not understand the meaning of my article in the way I wanted. My second fear is that the clarification of the issue I have raised may follow the line of an irreconcilable and useless discussion between extreme adherents of X-ray therapy and extreme fans of the knife in the treatment of uterine fibromyomas. From the point of view of these two concerns, I will build my answer assoc. Kaplan.

Cases of intestinal obstruction (Ph. D.) during pregnancy have not left the stage of casuistry. The world literature on this issue has material for a little more than 200 cases, Russian literature has dozens of cases related to this.

The discovery of the tubercle bacillus by R. Koch did not give rise to doubts about the identity of the causative agent of tuberculosis in humans, cattle and birds, because in terms of their attitude to coloring substances and the conditioning of pathomorphological changes, both behaved the same way. But already in 1889, Rivolta expressed the opinion that the tube rod of birds in its morphological and biological properties differs significantly from the human VC. The opinion of Rivolta was confirmed in 1890 by Maffucia, and R. At the congress in Berlin, Koch recognized the avian tuberculosis bacillus as a separate, although very close type to the VC of human tuberculosis. Thus arose the doctrine of the duality of tuberculosis, the difference between avian and human tuberculosis. This dualistic teaching has found experienced defenders in the person of Straus and Gammalei. The main arguments were as follows: the tbc bacilli of birds give a more abundant culture and a wetter one; they grow well at t 43°. They are pathogenic for chickens and not pathogenic for dogs. They kill rabbits and guinea pigs without, however, pathomorphological changes caused by VC being detected in their organs.

There are congenital and acquired diaphragmatic hernias (D. G.). The first ones are not of significant practical interest, since newborns with diaphragm defects usually die soon after birth.

Spontaneous gangrene of the external genitals was first described by Fournier in 1883 under the name "spontaneous lightning gangrene of the external genitals". Since then, this disease has been described under different names: "infected gangrene", "gangrenous erysipelas of the scrotum", "streptococcal gangrene of the scrotum" , etc.

A number of physical methods of treatment have long been included in the arsenal of measures for the treatment of wounds and suppurations.

Surg., Gyn. a. Obst., (1936, October, No. 4).

A. recommends the treatment of hydroadenitis of the armpit on an abduction splint with the laying of a hand on it, taken away at right angles from another cell; in the presence of abscesses, the latter are opened with small incisions, and the dressing is not applied to the wound.

Surgery in cases of appendicitis with infiltration is technically difficult and involves the risk of side damage, general infection, subsequent necrosis of the omentum and the formation of fecal fistula and splices.

Based on the study of modern literature and his own cases, the author analyzes the frequency, clinical significance and genesis of perforations of gastric and duodenal ulcers after feeding with contrast mass during X-ray.

The author has developed a material on facial furuncles that has passed through the Cologne University Clinic for 9 years.

Viruses are usually called such pathogenic agents that do not grow on artificial inanimate media, are not visible at any magnification and pass through filters.

A. used the rat typhus virus for his experiments.

The antigen for the reaction was prepared either from influenza virus cultures or from the lungs of mice infected with influenza virus (human or pig strain).

The presence of bacillary sputum for many months after the application of pneumothorax is an indisputable indication for thoracoscopy to determine the possibility of burning out the splices.

The author, the director of the eye clinic in Strasbourg, points out that recently there has been a change in the views on the etiology of eye diseases, and tbk is assigned a much greater role in their origin.

In 1931, Aguirre presented the first case of erythema nodosum, the tuberculous etiology of which was proved by the method of successive inoculations of a biopsied nodule.

The author performed 24 thyroidectomies in basedoviks who had asystole.

The author gives the medical history of a 58-year-old woman who suffers from seizures characterized by fainting, stomach pain and vomiting.

Daily use of small doses of synthetic thyroxine for a long period can cause a condition of chronic progressive thyrotoxicosis in a rabbit, which from a pathologic and anatomical point of view has a great similarity with thyrotoxicosis observed in humans.

Observations have shown that the normal descent of the testicles into the scrotum is also dependent on the gonadotropin.

Based on a histological study aimed at determining the nature of the fibers in the branches of the trigeminal, olfactory and border nerve and the ratio of these fibers to each other, the author reports: the study was conducted on cats, white rats, guinea pigs; the preparations were fixed according to Wittmaak and de Castro with filling in celloidin-paraffin according to Apathy, longitudinal and transverse sections were examined according to Kiss'y, silvered according to Ramon'y and Lenhossek'y.

A 56-year-old man complained of urination disorder, thinning of the urine stream; he suffered gonorrhea 20 years ago; during the examination, he was found to have urethral stricture.

The report concerns 6 cases of diverticula.

A case of urethral carcinoma in a 52-year-old woman was described.

Over 10 years, the company has held 82 meetings, at which 197 reports on scientific topics were heard. The Society discussed a number of valuable proposals for the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat (the use of sclerotherapy for inflammation of the nose and pharynx, the use of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy, etc.).