Vol 18, No 3 (1922)

Until 1905, that is, before the discovery of the causative agent of syphilis, Spirochaeta pallida, only very little was known about spirochetes; at the present time the chapter "Spirochetosis" belongs to the most extensive and important chapters of microbiology. At the time given to me for my presentation, I can give you only a brief overview of the relevant field.

The question of the importance of the mineral constituents of the poverty reap and its ash in the nutrition of the animal organism was first raised by the well-known Comission de Ia gelatine. In the reports of this Commission, we find, among other things, the assumption that the cause of death of animals, when fed with boiled meat, or washed in distilled water and squeezed out fibrin, is the low ash content of the food.

I hardly need to talk about that. how important is the timely and rapid recognition of infectious diseases such as relapsing fever and malaria. Since the causative agents of these diseases in a certain period of the disease are in the peripheral blood, the usual method of recognizing these diseases is a blood test.

In recent years, at the Hospital Surgical Clinic of Kazan University, there have been several rather interesting cases of replacement of extensive defects of the skull after traumatic injuries, accompanied by epileptic seizures.

The functions of the spinal cord are automatic in the embryo in a normal person; thus, knee flexion is easier with hip flexion. In animals with a less differentiated forebrain, it appears more clearly (for example, in a rabbit, flexion of one articulation gives rise to flexion in the other).

According to Savinі for this purpose, glasses with lubricants are placed in a 5% solution of two chromium copper, washed and stained with a saturated solution of charlah in ethyl alcohol, followed by: washing, light coloring of the nuclei with a contrasting paint, again washing, drying and imprisoning in neutral glycerin or a thick solution of levulose.

Lyubarsky gives an interesting summary of the works of various authors who worked in the past epidemic of the Spanish flu.

On the basis of both his own observations and the data available in the literature, Schubert comes to the conclusion that relapsing fever does not give persistent immunity, after which reinfection is sometimes observed in both humans and animals; the latter can proceed with 1.2 or more attacks, and the nature of the primary disease and its duration do not seem to have a noticeable effect on the course of the disease during reinfection. In the opinion of this author, in order to avoid the spread of the disease, it is necessary to withstand recurrent typhoid patients in medical institutions with a normal temperature of 20 days, and any attack that occurs after this period can be considered reinfection.

Grlässner warmly recommends for this purpose a 0.2-0.4% solution of caustic soda with aq. menthae piperitae, 50 timing. every 2 hours, with the entire treatment lasting from 2 to 3 months. Caustic alkali has a threefold effect on the stomach wall: 1) neutralizing, 2) destroying enzymes and 3) cauterizing. It is tolerated by patients very well and usually gives a quick effect in the sense of the disappearance of pain and other subjective disorders.

When carrying out a differential diagnosis between these two diseases, the blood test for lymphocytes does not have, according to Weinberg, the significance that Moeves is trying to ascribe to it. True, according to Weinberg's observations, lymphopenia in stomach cancer occurs more often than in achilia gastrica, where, on the contrary, it is more often possible to ascertain lymphocytosis, but the difference here is not so great as to base the diagnosis on one attribute.

Based on a number of personal observations of prof. Yarotsky considers artificial pneumothorax to be a very valuable therapeutic agent, in appropriate cases saving such patients who would inevitably die without it.

Analyzing the question of the immediate cause of the bursting of a mature Graaf's  bubble, Khazan arms himself against the currently prevailing theory of spontaneous ovulation  in his opinion, in the larvae of sexually mature women there is always a ready-to-burst Graaf's bubble, which, as is the case in animals, waits only for the act of copulation in order to isolate its contents.

Based on observations, over 25 cases of acute yellow atrophy of the liver in pregnant women that took place in Yekaterinburg in 1920-21. V. Peretz came to a trace, conclusions regarding this disease.

Having tried X-ray (at a dose of 18 to 67 N, given for 3-7 sessions) with this purpose in 10 cases of early pregnancy (the delay of menstruation was from 8 to 35 days), Arkhangelsky received sharply different results depending on the duration of pregnancy: in 7 cases, where the delay in menstruation was no more than 3 weeks, abortion occurred, in 3 cases where the delay was more than 3 weeks. the pregnancy, despite the X-ray, continued.

Вunеmаnn describes a case of psychogenic leucorrhoea, which for 12 years did not yield to any methods of treatment and were eliminated by a single hypnosis.

Having developed 618 sl. outpatient treatment of epilepsy, Wyrsch stated that sequential treatment with sedobrol or bromine with salt-free food gave 87% improvement.

To enhance the therapeutic effect of iridectomy in glaucoma, prof. Dolganov recommends to precede this operation by cutting off the sclera.

According to the observations of Karchikyan, removal of 10 cubic meters. sant. cerebrospinal fluid by lumbar puncture is an excellent symptomatic remedy for vertigo, which is a common companion of diseases of the inner ear, a fact first established by Babinski.

The war, the revolution and the economic devastation that followed them dealt a heavy blow to the Russian scientific press in general and the Russian medical press in particular. ” others, after several attempts to come out in a reduced size, they completely ceased to appear in the light. But our scientific medical thought did not die out. Despite the extremely difficult external conditions, it continued to work hard, and as a result, as soon as the slightest opportunity arose, medical journals and newspapers began to reappear in various scientific centers of Russia. and of a special nature. Strictly speaking, there were too many of them in the coming year, if we take into account the available scientific forces and material resources of the country — namely, over 50 — and, naturally, the quantitative aspect of the matter turned out to be at the expense of the qualitative one. Many of these journals were published in the reporting year in the amount of only 2-3 of a very small volume. not able to boast of either their content or their appearance. Hopefully, they are just seeds from which lush sprouts will subsequently develop.