Vol 30, No 10 (1934)

Electrocardiographic examinations of sports participants have only recently begun to be introduced in the practice of medical examinations of athletes and sportsmen. With our examination we aimed to reveal abnormalities of cardiac activity, which are observed in athletes during running for 5000 meters. Participants of the Volga Region and trade union Spartakiad ran this distance in 17-18 minutes.

With the modern growth of collective farm construction, the organization of public catering in the collective farm is a very important measure that contributes to raising labor productivity. Since collective farm production is in the field, the most important form of public catering during the spring sowing and harvesting campaigns should be considered a seasonal hearth-kitchen organized in the field in the working brigades. Interested in this issue, we can share a small experience of our work with regard to the organization of public catering in the field in the collective farms of Romanovsky district of Saratov region.

The Urals ranked first in the USSR in copper smelting, and the Karabash plant is the most powerful. The copper-ore combine owns 5 mines (Voroshilovsky, Dzerzhinsky, Central, P.-Maysky and Stalinsky), which are located 2-3 km. from the plant and connected with the latter by narrow-gauge railway. The nature of work in the mines, where copper or sulfuric metallur is extracted, is not much different from the development of iron ore and coal.

Blood transfusion as a therapeutic method is currently used in many areas of human pathology. Having taken its due place in the treatment of acute and chronic blood loss, blood transfusion has recently been used with success in the treatment of patients with acute and chronic intoxication. The latter is of particular importance, since the development of the chemical industry in our country and the tasks in connection with the protection of the health of workers in industrial enterprises highlight the method of treatment by blood transfusion of acute (and chronic) intoxications associated with various kinds of chemical hazards. In particular, acute poisoning with aniline and CO in severe cases is an extremely serious condition and all the therapeutic agents at our disposal (oxygen, strychnine, atropine, camphor, codeine, lobelia, etc.) are of little effect in the treatment of such patients, therefore it is quite understandable that the description of even individual cases of acute severe poisoning with aniline and CO, treated with a blood transfusion with a positive result, is of interest not only from the point of view of the accumulation of factual material, but is aimed at promoting therapeutic blood transfusion in these cases, as a method that gives a quick and correct therapeutic the effect.

In addition to frequently occurring diffuse thickenings of the parietal endocardium, limited fibrous thickenings of the parietal endocardium - endocardial mosaics - are also well known. The latter are limited thickenings, often with depressions, so-called "pockets". Most authors explain the occurrence of these blisters as a result of hitting the inner surface of the heart with an incorrectly moving blood wave, but the method of their formation has not yet been finally elucidated.

In search of the easiest, cheapest and most effective method of treating pyoderma, we tested a number of different ointments and solutions. After experimental studies, we settled on concentrated solutions of KMnO4 and in clinical studies we got a completely unexpected result. Lubrication with saturated solutions of skin areas affected by pyoderma does not cause any unpleasant subjective sensations and quickly restores the damaged areas of the epidermis. After a number of clinical observations of the action of KMnO4 on pyodermic skin diseases, we expanded the scope of our observations and began to treat dyshydrosis, psoriasis, eczema and other dermatoses with this method, and in a large percentage of cases we obtained a brilliant effect.

It is known that, apart from the colossal enlargement of the uterus due to hypertrophy and hyperplasia of its muscle fibers, there is no organ in the body of a pregnant woman whose cells have not changed in their structure and function on the grounds of pregnancy. The biological factors of pregnancy-attack and defense arise at the moment of implantation of the fertilized egg, hence the moment when the foreign protein enters the female body. Drawing a parallel between the body's defense in pregnancy and the phenomena of immunity presented tempting prospects.

Vascular thrombosis in obstetrics and gynecology is quite common, although not always easy to recognize. In the postpartum period, after many vaginal operations we have massive thrombus formation. Placental vein thrombosis is almost physiological; slowed blood flow, decreased vascular tone after the fetus emerges, blood loss are predisposing moments to thrombosis formation in the postpartum period.

Idiosyncrasy (from the Greek idios- own and syncrasis-mixture), known since ancient times, has not yet received a definite interpretation from modern scientific medicine, despite the enrichment of the latter by the successes of experiments, achievements of physics, chemistry, etc. Some authors refer idiosyncrasy to anaphylaxis, others to allergy with its complex internal mechanism.

The processes of hypersensitivity in tissues, hyperergic reactions, have attracted special attention since Pirke's discovery of the tuberculin test. Very soon it became obvious that the processes of hypersensitivity play a significant role in the pathogenesis of many diseases of a very different nature, often determining these or those features and phases of the course of the disease process. Now elements of hyperergic state of tissues are noted in pathology of such diverse diseases as tuberculosis, syphilis, trichophytosis, bronchial asthma, eczema, hay fever, urticaria and some others.

Syktyvkar! How many of us have heard this euphonious, alluring with its "mysterious obscurity" name of the center of the Komi region? Soviet culture has also brought Syktyvkar out of oblivion, making it a cultural center that makes us talk about it a lot, and this time it's our turn to talk about Syktyvkar, the medical Syktyvkar.

The collection is prefaced with a foreword by the director of the Central Institute for ODE and E. Yu. Shurpe, under whose editorship in one year the Institute published an entire library (30 books) devoted to the protection of children's health. This preface gives an overview of the glorious 50 years of activity of Prof. Kisel.

Based on the fact that in healthy people a dry diet with large amounts of NaCl is the strongest diuretiça, the author decided to test the effect of such a diet in amyloid patients.

In 48 cases of artificial pneumothorax complicated by exudative pleurisy, the authors applied a salt-free diet and per os injection of calcium chloride 6.0-12.0 per day. In 50% treated cases, the authors obtained a decrease in fever, reduction of effusion, increased urine output, and improved conditions of artificial pneumothorax management.

The authors made comparative observations on thermoregulation and sweat secretion in a light bath with a salt-rich and salt-poor "raw" diet. It turned out that with the "raw" diet the light sweat bath was generally better tolerated.

Skin temperature depends mainly on the amount of incoming blood and is of great practical importance. In limb artery embolism the skin temperature reveals a large difference on the healthy and diseased limb. In doubtful cases this symptom allows a diagnosis to be made after 1-2 hours and a timely operation to be undertaken.

To induce hyperglycemia, which according to Antonucci hastens the appearance of the bladder shadow, a. suggests an injection of 1-11/2 c. c. adrenaline.

The author describes the isolation of a pure culture of the microbe "Syphonospora polimorfha" he discovered and proves its relation to the genesis of cancerous tumors. This microorganism was obtained by the author from the blood of cancer patients and animals, as well as from human and animal tumors themselves.

The authors found 21% of the 208 school-age children had prolonged muscle pain, commonly referred to as growth pains. The onset of pain was often preceded by a sore throat. Four children developed mitral defect.

The authors took a group of 88 children who had spent the first 4-5 years of their lives in the same institution under the same nutritional conditions, etc. Half of these children had rickets in early childhood; the other half had rickets prevented by the use of cod-liver oil and other measures.

Based on four cases of poisoning with trichloroethylene (СНСl = ССl₂) that he observed in industrial workers, the author dwells on the action and occupational hazards of this chemical substance, which is widely used as a fat-solvent in industry.

Over the past 43 years, 227 cases have been reported in the world literature. Acanth. nigric. In Europe 184 cases, in Japan 43 cases in 32 years. Autopsies were seldom performed and their number did not exceed 20. The authors had an opportunity to observe a typical case in a 59-year-old peasant.

The appendix is predominantly a lymphatic organ and functionally differs significantly from the other organs of the abdomen. Diseases of the appendix are not simply the result of invasion by intestinal bacteria, because the bacterial flora of the appendix is usually different from that of the intestine.

In cases of inoperable prostate cancer-where patients are known to suffer terrible pain, especially radiating to the sciatic nerve-the author suggests three ways to stop this pain.

The author reports an observation of a brain abscess following a fracture of a rocky bone, operated on 6 months after the injury with the outcome of complete recovery and perfect restoration of hearing function.

Having studied a number of anatomical preparations of the organs of interest in various sections and ages, the author arrives at the following data: the hindlimb, as a small shell-like formation, is formed by the 2nd month of embryonic life as a small projection on the lateral wall of the nose; the hindlimbs of mammalian hindlimbs correspond to those of humans and represent thickenings on the lateral walls of the nose by the end of uterine life.

We read with the greatest interest your open letter, printed in the "Kazan Medical Journal" No. 3-4, 1934, and discussed it at a meeting of doctors and medical workers of our district.

The CEC of the USSR adopted a decree on the training of physicians. Noting the unsatisfactory state of medical education, the decree specifies a number of measures to radically improve the training of medical personnel.