Vol 17, No 3 (1921)

In today's annual meeting of our Society, I have been entrusted with the flattering task of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the greatest and so beneficial in its consequences, the discovery by the Würzburg physics professor Wilhelmʹ Konradʹ Röntgen of hitherto unknown rays - x-rays, to which we, grateful to the memory of the scientist , have given the name "X-rays".

If, during my 15-year professorship, I have never decided to teach my listeners a course in kidney pathology, then at first glance it will seem to you something surprising. You will involuntarily have a question — why? Not because, - I will answer, - that this department of private pathology was uninteresting to me, and not because I did not know it, but because teaching it in the form required in the program, and as it is presented in the teaching guides recommended by me did not satisfy me both in its direction and, most importantly, in its tendentiousness.

In this session, we will allow ourselves to draw your attention to an extremely interesting case; observed in our clinic.

Wash diseases, in general, are very rare, sometimes — as it happened, for example, according to Beitzk e, in France — increased to the size of small epidemics. Something similar seems to be observed in our country at the present time, and therefore my report has its own raison d'etre in the sense, so to speak, of topicality. Its purpose is to clarify, if possible, the question of the contagiousness of the noma and the relation of the latter to some other diseases, mainly to angina Vincenti.

As you know, under the name of the Caesar section is an operation, with the help of which — in case of impossibility of giving birth per vias naturales — new pathways are created for the birth of the fetus through the incision of the abdominal wall and the wall of the uterus. The idea of ​​the operation is so simple that it suggests itself. Indeed, the emergence of the idea of ​​this operation dates back to ancient times. We find indications of this method of delivery already in Greek mythology. In this way, the birth of Aesculapius took place. In ancient Rome, the requirement to perform the Caesar section — indeed, on the dead — was embodied in the form of a law (the so-called lex regia de inferendo mortuo) attributed to Numa Pompilius.

Fungal lesions of the eyes and their appendages are very rare, and it would be a pity to bury in the manuscript one case of a completely peculiar fungal infection of the century, observed in the Kazan Eye Clinic and examined by me a long time ago, but remained unpublished after the onset of war, and then the cessation of publications medical journals.

Patient I, M., 20 years old, farmer. There are no special indications from the side of heredity and personal diseases. August 11, 1920, at the front, 1½ soot. an unexploded shell fell from the patient. At the same time, the patient was wounded by a fragment of another shell in the right half of the chest. The patient fell on his back, without losing, however, - consciousness, after 5 minutes. tried to get up but could not walk. Established: paraplegia inferior, ana sthesia to the waist, radicular pain in the lower extremities (anesthesia dolorosa), within 12 days there were symptoms of dysuria and constipation. Later, there was a slow improvement, more pronounced on the left. Weight loss in a year - 20 lbs.