Vol 4, No 3 (1904)

In our fiction, soon after the last Russian-Turkish Campania, there was a short story of Garshin with the title "4 days". In this story, very talented, in a rather lively colour, with stunning realism, a sad picture is reproduced of the psychological and physical suffering of wounded Ivanov, lying in the bushes after one clash with the Turks, 4 days, waiting for any medical help. The vivid strokes of this truthful and artistic story make a very depressing impression on every reader. But these impressed touches are undoubtedly even deeper into the soul and heart of everyone, when one thinks that the suffering hero of this story is only a faint hint, a pale reflection of that sad reality, those stunning horrors that are seen on the battlefield.

The motivation for this message is only one desire to share the impressions that I can endure, observing the picture of the disease from beginning to end directly at the patient's bedside in one of the wards of the Vyatka Provincial Zemsky Hospital, in the spring of last year. Moreover, both in the course and in the therapy of this pathological process, I had to face some unexpected complications, which gives me a basis to isolate it from a number of usual ones.

Not only among doctors, but also among the public, there is an established view that scurvy is a disease that develops on the soil of perverse nutrition. The purpose of our study was to provide figures, a statistical way of verifying this, in an empirical way, in the form of an established view. On the other hand, we set ourselves the goal of the same way to find out the role of another factor in the ethnology of scurvy - the role of sanitary conditions, mainly a housing estate, a village hut for various groups of peasant population.

I received Emil Pasburg's dry milk preparations from the Kazan District Military Medical Directorate with a proposal to familiarize myself with these preparations and submit a conclusion regarding their suitability as food products.

Clinically, as is known, there are two forms of liver cirrhosis: hypertrophic and atrophic; the latter is called more Laennec's cirrhosis or cirrhosis of drunkards.

There is a widespread misconception in the public that hypnotism is only valid and beneficial when the patient can be brought to a deep level of hypnotic sleep; thanks to this ingrained opinion, patients sometimes stop being treated with regret at the very beginning, claiming that the doctor cannot hypnotise them.

More or less critical assessment of the already existing in the literature is statistical material and hypotheses relative reproduction and inheritance (Dr. Ignatiev, Prof. Orshansky, Dr. Tutyshkin, Darwin, Veisman, etc.) indicates that the exact data on this biologic question is absent, and therefore any material in this relationship over time may not be useless.

Prepossessing historical data the development of scholarship on hypnosis in Russia, the author examines two provisions, apparently, which served as the basis of the known circular of the Medical Department regarding hypnosis in medical practice - the negative side of hypnotization and the possibility of criminal intentions.