Vol 18, No 1 (1922)

The issue of diaphragmatic hernias has been the subject of persistent and fruitful research since the last half of the last century. Until that time, the more or less developed doctrine of diaphragm hernias, one might say, did not exist at all - if individual cases of this kind of hernias were described, then the number of these descriptions was not so great, and these descriptions were of a purely casuistic nature.

Usually, it is customary to take any broad, general questions of medicine as topics for speeches delivered at the Annual Meetings of our Society. In deviation from this rule, the subject of my speech will be only a private medical method, and, moreover, applied to a particular disease of one organ. If, however, I add that such a disease is uterine cancer, and the therapeutic method, which I will talk about in my speech, is radiation therapy, then the indicated digression will become completely understandable for you.

Skin diseases characterized by anomalies of keratinization in the sense of hypertrophy of the stratum corneum were named by Lebert in 1864 keratosis (keratosis circumscripta et keratosis diffusa). Hebra in his textbook on skin diseases distinguishes between the following two forms: keratosis without simultaneous participation in the process of skin papillae (callositas, clavus, cornu cutaneum) and keratosis, accompanied by more or less pronounced resolution of the papillary layer (verruca, ichthyosis).

With his classical experiments on the frog's mesentery, Conheim established, as is known, that inflammation is based on the emigration of leukocytes per diapedesin through the vascular wall, and Conheim relates to this emigration the marks that appear in the tissues undergoing inflammation. Subsequently, Marchand, Herzog and others made a significant amendment to the teachings of Conheim'a - that, in addition to emigrated leukocytes, the cells of the inflammatory infiltrate located around the vessels also have a histogenic origin, being the results of the proliferation of especially adventitiae elements, and those found in infiltration of polynuclear cells, not to mention lymphocytes, mast and plasma cells.

As you know, the time when women become pregnant, that is, the fertilized egg enters the uterus and is grafted onto its wall, has not yet been established with sufficient certainty.

The real enthusiasm with which the introduction of pituitrin and other pituitary preparations into obstetric practice as a means of enhancing labor contractions of the uterus was greeted among German obstetricians has apparently subsided in recent years, and they have returned to the old remedy. for this purpose, quinine. Werner (Monatsschr. F. Geb. U. Gyn., Bd. XLVIII; Zentr. F. Gyn., 1919) used hydrochloric acid quinine in 5% solution in the form of intravenous infusions (10 cc. S.), And each infusion was accompanied by injecting the same dose of quinine into the muscles

Meanwhile, as the incidence of eclampsia with the beginning of the great war dropped sharply, in relation to functional amenorrhea, that is, the reasons for which cannot be found in diseases of the female reproductive apparatus, the opposite was observed: the number of cases of it during the war greatly increased, which gave the reason for the authors to talk about "military amenorrhea".

Peritonitis is a disease that accounts for perhaps the largest number of deaths after gynecological operations.