Vol 27, No 2 (1931)

Recognizing diseases is very difficult. For centuries, the efforts of doctors have been directed in this direction, and nevertheless, at present, the teaching of recognizing diseases is, we can safely say, in its infancy. There is no way to list all the approaches that have been taken in this regard.

Hygienic and dietary treatment of tuberculosis patients is an important factor in the treatment of tuberculosis, and it is quite understandable that for a long time kumis therapy has attracted the attention of wide medical circles as a powerful healing method.

Various forms of strangulated hernias are one of the most common diseases when you have to resort to immediate surgery. With a huge number of hernia repairs performed in these cases, where the operational technique has been developed since ancient times, at first glance it seems that all the improvements that are possible have already been made here.

The question of spontaneous uterine ruptures during artificial termination of pregnancy deserves attention and interest both from the casuistic side and from the forensic medical point of view.

Although porencephaly, as a disease with a certain pathological and anatomical substrate, has been known for more than a hundred years and more than 200 cases of this disease have been described in the world literature, all these cases could be recognized only post mortem on the basis of pathological and anatomical autopsies. Lifetime diagnosis of this relatively rare disease was considered impossible until recently. Therefore, the case described below, where true porencephaly was established in vivo with undoubted reliability, should be of exceptional interest.

Extensive epizootics of anthrax, periodically visiting Siberia and the Urals, raise the issue of the danger of anthrax for buttermaking and methods of sterilizing oil from disadvantaged regions with great urgency to the health authorities.

In recent years, there has been a tendency of health authorities to curtail the anti-STD network in the countryside, meanwhile, survey data still reveal a large number of fresh forms of syphilis in the countryside. Medical facilities are completely unprepared for local syphilis treatment. Lack of medicines, unpreparedness of the medical staff for treatment, all this puts the fight against syphilis in the village in very difficult conditions. This work is the experience of examining a Bashkir village and convexly highlights the degree of spread of syphilis in the village.

Patient Luz-a, a widow, 51 years old, the mother of a worker of the Kialim stoves, was admitted to the therapeutic department of the Zlatoust city hospital named after I. The October Revolution on April 17, 1930 (source bol. No. 2695). Referred for seven days of stool and gas retention. Before that, there were often pains in the epigastric region and a feeling of heaviness after eating. The real disease developed immediately.

Based on the instructions of my highly respected teacher prof. G.Ya. Gurevich on the beneficial effect of a 5% solution of manganese-acid potassium for burns, bedsores and some other deep skin lesions, while still a student during summer practice in 1927, I began to systematically use this remedy among workers of a brick factory, where patients with burns were more common than in other outpatient clinics.

Infectious diseases are usually divided into general ones, where a person responds to the introduction of microorganisms with a general reaction from the body, expressed by high fever and changes in many internal organs, such as: typhoid fever, influenza, scarlet fever, plague, cholera and many others, and local, with which the general condition of the body and healthy organs either do not react at all to the intake of an infectious principle, or a similar reaction is expressed, proceeds little noticeably and is not always present on the face. Such local microbial origin of diseases include some infectious diseases of the skin, for example, rhinoscleroma, lupus, primary tubercle of the skin, actinomycosis, and genital organs, such as chancre and gonorrhea or gonorrhea.

The enormous economic significance of rheumatism, which gave reason to classify it as a social disease and call it a "scourge for the industry", aroused great interest in the fight against it both in Western Europe and in the USSR. According to Arno1d'a, Ziiner'a for one case of tuberculosis "rheumatic" diseases give in places 3.2 diseases; their duration is on average 3-4 times longer than with tuberculosis.

E. V. Guryanov, A. A. Smirnov, M. V. Sokolov, P. A. IIIievarev. The Binet-Theremin rock for measuring the mental development of children, 116 pages, with appendices. "Worker of Enlightenment", 1930.

New data on the structure of proteins. Works by Kosse1 and Schenck based on Schenck's articles. (Naturwissensch. Hf. 39,824, 1930. and Arch. F. Exp. Path 150, 160, 1930). The works are interesting both from the point of view of the spontaneous penetration of dialectical attitudes into science, and from the point of view of changing our ideas about proteins as substances that have a certain structure formula during the life cycle.

About Perthes'a disease. Dr. Gaugele (Zentralbl. F. Chir. 1931. No. 2) indicates that usually only lesions of the femoral head are described under Perthes'a disease. The author observed cases of lesions of the acetabulum alone, or simultaneously with the femoral head.

February 16 p. In the meeting of the obstetric and gynecological section of the Kazan Island of Physicians, the 40th anniversary of the scientific and teaching activity of prof. V. S. Gruzdeva.

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