Vol 20, No 6 (1924)

On April 30 this year, Kazan University honored its veteran of labor, professor of physiology Nikolai Alexandrovich Mislavsky, on the occasion of his 70th birthday and 48th anniversary of his scientific and teaching activities. Such a rare jubilee of the venerable scientist, who has won fame far beyond the borders of our homeland, united the learned world, social forces, as well as the students of the hero of the day into a single family.

Despite the fact that the thyroid gland was described as early as the 17th century, its biological role for the animal organism is being clarified only by recent works.

During the period from September 1922 to І / ІІ 1923, 23 patients with damage to the costal cartilage were treated in the department. According to age and sex, they were distributed in the following way: there were 5 women, 18 men, 1 from 10 to 20 years old, 1 from 20 to 30—1, from 30 to 40—5, from 40 and older — 16. There were 20 people with the opened trial, 3 with the closed trial. In 19 cases the trial was one-sided, in 1 it was two-sided.

No matter how valuable is specialization in medicine, no matter how much we owe it to it for the most detailed development of individual branches of our science, we still have to note the shadow side of this direction: general provisions and improvements in technology in one area do not so soon become the property of, and sometimes completely disappear for another ... As we delve deeper into one discipline, we do not have time to monitor the success of another.

Since the time of Brissaud's works (1, 2, 3), almost all researchers have distinguished 2 main forms of infantilism: Brissaud-type infantilism and Logain'a-type infantilism.

Coming to a brief review of the epidemic state of the Republic of Tatarstan in 1923, we must point out that the digital material related to this is far from complete and inaccurate. Firstly, this does not include information about the incidence of diseases in transport, waterways and in military units; secondly, our data is generally significantly lower than reality due to poor registration in the field.

Both his own research and analysis of the literature on the issue convinced Tatarinov (Izv. Biol. Inet. At Perm University, vol. II, issue 7) that platelets cannot be considered as true cellular elements.

Having tested various biological reactions to echinococcus, Ithurrat and Calcagno (according to the ref. Journal for whiskers, doctors, 1924, No. 3) received the best results from a skin reaction — injection into the skin of a liquid obtained from calf hydatida.

According to prof. Matsushita (ref. In Journal for mustache, doctors, 1924, No. 3) in Japan, experiments are being carried out on a large scale with the treatment of cancer with carcinolysin, a substance obtained from the Chinese plant Haisung (a genus of pine trees) and apparently having enzymatic properties.

Having tried intramuscular injection of sterile milk in 25 scurvy patients, Andronov (Zhurn. For mustaches, doctors, 1924, No. 2) became convinced of the high validity of this method of treating scurvy.

Based on his experimental research, prof. Russian (Med. Klinik, 1924, No. 3) offers mixtures of these two substances for anesthesia in different volumetric ratios.

Proebster (Arch. F. Ort. U. Unfall-Chirurgie, Bd XXI, H. 3), based on 4 of his own observations and detailed literary coverage of the issue, believes that in the origin of rheumatism of the spine, as well as in the origin of chronic rheumatism in general, plays a major role way cooling, in more rare cases, trauma, infection (diplobacilli, staphylococcus and many other microbes) and toxic moments.

Although the mucous membrane lining this part of the uterus has the same structure as the mucosa corporis uteri, however, according to the research of Nürnberger'a (Zeitsclir. F. Geb. u. Gyn., Bd. LXXXV, H. 1), its participation in the cycle menstrual changes are much weaker than the participation of this latter.

Frey (Zentr. F. Gyn., 1924, No. 18) proposes chloroformation to combat intrauterine asphyxia of the fetus. If the frequency of fetal heart sounds during the entire pause between two contractions is less than 100 per minute, then the woman in labor is immediately chloroformed, moreover, if the intake is 10-15 minutes. after the onset of anesthesia, the fetal heartbeat becomes normal or approximately normal in frequency, then chloroformation is interrupted and childbirth is allowed to flow naturally; if, within the specified period, the restoration of the normal heart rate does not occur, then it is necessary to resort to the prompt termination of labor.

On the basis of his, though not numerous, observations, Köhler (Zentr. F. Gyn., 1923, no. 44) finds that with menorrhagias that do not respond to drug treatment, it is useful to resort to partial resection of the ovaries: menstruation after this operation, while maintaining their normal type, become much less abundant, and no climacteric disorders are observed.

Boominger (Jahrb. F. Kind., B. 103) studied the leukocyte blood picture from 66 children aged from 2 weeks to 1 year from Schilling.

Treatment of epilepsy with vaccines was recently applied by Protopopov (BP. Gaz., 1924, No. 3) on a number of patients, and the author injected vaccines (staphylococcal and streptococcal) in doses of 0.1-0.2 cubic meters. sant., increasing after 3 - 4 days for the same dose and reaching 1 to. sant. Of 17 patients, 14 were with epilepsia genuina, 2 with epilepsia partialis, and 1 with. epilepsia part, continua.

The brilliant results obtained by HuIdschinsky'm, György and others from illumination with a mercury-quartz lamp for rickets prompted some doctors to apply this method of treatment for childhood tetany, which, like rickets, is caused by the state of impaired mineral metabolism in the body.

Rosentul (Med. Ob. Iizhn. Pov., 1924, No. 5) saw very good results from the use of calcium salts, in the form of intravenous injections of a 10% solution of calcium chloride, 10 cubic meters each. with. PA injection, with the latter being repeated daily, for a number of skin diseases, namely, for acute eczema, urticaria, herpes zoster, lichen chronicus Vidal’n, pruritus vulvae, pruritus ani, dermatitis herpetiformis Dühring’a, etc.

Dr. E.S.Alekseev showed a patient who was 11 months old. ago prof. A.V. Vishnevsky underwent splenectomy for anemiae perniciosae. Before the operation, the patient was in the Faculty Therapeutic Clinic, and, despite vigorous treatment with Arrenal and Collargol, the blood picture and general condition, he was uncontrollably deteriorating. When he was transferred to the Surgical Clinic, he had: Hb. - 50%. E. — 960,000, L — 1.855, col. pok. less than 1, pathological forms of blood corpuscles were observed

Dr. N.V. Sokolov demonstrated a patient who had suffered from gangrene of the left lung during his bare year. Therapeutic treatment was unsuccessful.

Dr. I. I. Rusetsky read a report on 50 Scientific Meetings of Physicians of the Institute, which have taken place since the beginning of the existence of the latter. At all these meetings, 150 reports were made, and 55% of reports fall on the therapeutic cycle, 35% on the surgical cycle, and 10% on theoretical subjects. Demonstrations of patients, drugs and therapy issues were the subject of reports in 68%, theoretical issues in 25%, congresses and public medicine in 7%. Professors and heads of departments made 37% of the reports, assistants and laboratory assistants — 31%, residents — 22%, external students and outside doctors — 10%. The total number of speakers is 76, of which 1 made 10 reports, 1-3 ,. 1-7, 1-6, 3 — 5 each, 6 — 4 each, 8 — 3 each, 14 — 2 each and 31 — 1 each.

Dr. RI Okun gave observations on the treatment of 30 cases of psoriasis vulgaris according to the Sachs-Hübner method (¼% chrysarobine ointment and intravenous infusion of salicylic sodium). The best treatment result was obtained in acute eruptions of psoriasis with established arthropathic phenomena. The cure was achieved in 3-6 weeks. Chronic rashes gave recovery only in cases with the existence of arthropathies, but more slowly. In other cases, no result was obtained.