Vol 7, No 2-6 (1907)

Nikolay Matvevich was born in 1852 in the city of Ufa. He lost his father very early when he was still a baby. His mother (Elizaveta Vasilievna), two years after her husband's death, married for the second time to an official of the Treasury (Chernobaev). Nikolai Matveyevich grew up in the family lonely, because he had neither brothers nor sisters.

My acquaintance with the deceased embraces a rather long period of time, about 32 years. As a 16-year-old boy, I met N.M. in one family from Ufa, the homeland of the deceased, who lived with us on the same yard, on Novogorshechnaya Street, in Platunov's house, now owned by Fedorova. Our meetings in this family were quite frequent, and from the very first days of our acquaintance I was fascinated by the handsome face of the deceased, his simplicity of handling and fascinating stories about the pathological and anatomical autopsies produced by him.

On January 18, 1880, H. M. Lyubimov, then still a prosector at the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the Kazan University, was elected a valid member of the Society of Physicians, which was attached to the Imperial Kazan University. Since then, and until the very last days of his life, for 26 years continuously, Nikolai Matvevich took a lively part in the affairs and life of the Society, and no one else from our members was so active and did not bring so much benefit to our Society as Professor Lyubimov excluding his teacher, the famous Chairman of our Society of the old times, prof. A. V. Petrov.

In Russian literature we have very few reports of Banti disease. The first belongs to Gruzdev, with a detailed literary analysis of this issue and a description of the observed only clinically in the Kronstad hospital of one own observation. The late professor H.M. Lyubimov in 1902 introduced our society to this new form of the disease, which was established by him in one case at the section table, and was accompanied, moreover, by a special form of peritonitis. This observation with a detailed pathological and anatomical examination is the first in Russia.

In 1886, Prof. W. Wagner, who introduced a general surgery called temporary or osteoplastic resection of the skull, suggested that temporary resection of the eye socket is also possible by removing a wedge-shaped section of the ocular margin and the adjacent bones of the face. At the same time and independently of him, the famous Swiss surgeon R. Krönlein, for the removal of the dermoid cyst lying behind the eye socket, opened up access to it through the resection (temporary) of the external ocular roof. He removed the tumour and left the eyeball in place.

Chronic peritonitis occurs in two forms - exudative and sticky or sclerosing inflammation. In the last form, marked as an important and insignificant phenomenon, even by the Virchow, it is most often observed in the form of splicing of separate organs of the abdominal cavity with each other or with the abdominal wall and in the vast majority of cases, it is caused by the abdominal cavity or damage to the abdominal cavity; sometimes it is the result of operations.

Cases of multiple echinococcus occur not particularly often. So, according to the latest and accurate statistics, Vegas and Granveil in Argentina, where in the last time the disease turned out to be endemic, in 952 cases, multiple echinococcus was observed in only 27 patients, which is 2.8%.