Vol VI, No 2 (1898)

Over the past time, both in the general and in the special medical press, alarming voices have been heard louder and louder about the gradual increase in the number of mentally ill people among the population. This fact with constancy is also confirmed by the corresponding statistical studies and reports of psychiatric hospitals.

It is known that if we make a transverse cut of the muscle at a right angle to its axis, then the points located at an equal distance and symmetrical with respect to the center of the cut surface will have the same potentials, and therefore, when we move away from these places, we will not receive any current; if the cut is made with a greater or lesser sharp angle, then when two symmetrical points of such a transverse cut are retracted, one of which is closer to the obtuse one and the other to the acute angle, the current is obtained, and it turns out that the place lying at the obtuse angle is always positively in relation to lying in acute. These currents are called tilt currents.

I think that the above ten stories of the disease are quite enough to create a picture of the disease; I could add another twelve stories of illness, but this would be completely unnecessary and would increase the volume of work, which, as you know, only spoils the heart. The history of illness not given here would be an unnecessary repetition of what has already been described in sufficient detail in the ten cases described.

Of all the methods of studying cranial blood circulation, which I will not list here, the best is the one in which the state of cranial blood circulation is judged by the blood pressure in the two ends of the carotid artery. Hürthle was the first to observe this method, and therefore the method itself is often called the Hürthle method. However, as Hürthle himself says, the idea of ​​a method existed before. So, A. Dastre and J. Morat, for the purpose of proving the existence of vasomotor fibers for the lower limb in n. ischiadicus, determined the blood pressure in the central end of one a. cruralis and in the peripheral end the other; on the side last n. ischiadicus overcame. With irritation of a peripheral nerve cut, the pressure increased in the peripheral end of the а. cruralis, remaining unchanged in the central cut. “This increase in pressure in the operated limb, which coincides with the unchanged pressure in the rest of the body, proves that (with the indicated irritation) there is a reduction in small arteries”.

That the separation of the prostatae is a permanent constituent of the sperm is a fact accepted by all; but the innervation of this gland is almost not affected by the researchers. The only indication on the participation of nerves in the process of separation we find in two memoirs of Eckhard, who observed the discharge of a certain amount of prostate juice into the urethra during irritation n. n. erigentes in dogs. This separation was suppressed only at the beginning of irritation of the nerves, and Eckhard came to the conclusion that erigens is not a separate nerve for the gland in the full sense of the word, but empties the already formed secret, acting on the musculature of the gland. Eckhard, however, managed to obtain a significant amount of secretion by direct irritation of the gland itself. The collected secret had a neutral reaction, a specific gravity of 1.012 and a solid residue of 2.5%, of which about 1% was proteins.

Cases of periodical eye paralysis are far from frequent occurrence and have been described so far only in a small number. In addition, many aspects of this interesting painful defeat are still not sufficiently clarified. In view of this, I will focus on one of the cases presented to my observation of periodically aggravating paralysis of the optic nerves, which at the same time represented extremely peculiar fluctuations in the control of the movements of the upper arms.

At children's age, nervous diseases often manifest themselves differently than in adults, they do not have a peculiar course, and in general, by the nature of the clinical picture, they sometimes largely deviate from the type that we are used to observing in adults. Some of the forms of nervous diseases of childhood age, in their ethiology, in their development, course and outcomes, are so different from similar forms in adults that they certainly deserve a special description and special analysis, as the clinical study of such forms can spill over into many nerves. in general, and to find out the pathology of especially confused, unclear and atypical cases of nervous diseases in adults. From this point of view, the study of nervous diseases of childhood deserves special attention and is of great interest both in theoretical and in practical relations. Of the Russian neuropathologists, V.A.Muratov was the first to deal with the special nervous pathology of childhood, and in this direction he had already published a lot of interesting and instructive observations.

Several years ago, neuropathologists and even psychiatrists were especially fond of the surgical treatment of the suffering of the central nervous system. At this time, neuropathologists very often called for help from the art of surgeons, and the surgical knife did not hesitate to penetrate into the cranial cavity and freely dispose of its contents. Soon, many observations appeared in this direction, mainly by English authors, who warmly recommended surgical intervention for brain diseases, reporting on the favorable results achieved by them with this method of treatment.

The first issue of the new magazine Rus. Med. Vestnik". In the course of 1898, 4 trial issues of the magazine will be published, and in 1899 "Vastnik" will already be published periodically in two books per month, 3-4 pages each. The annual price for the magazine is 5 rubles

Dr. Muraviev examines the structural features of the nerve cell in its normal and pathological state, using the Nissl stain. According to the author, our knowledge of the structure of the cell in the normal state can currently serve as the basis for pathological observations.

The Medical Faculty of the Imperial Kazan University at the end of March 27 of this year honored Doctor of Medicine B.I. Vorotynskiy title of assistant professor in the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases. For the next academic year, Doctor Vorotynskiy proposes to read a private course in forensic psychopathology for medical students and lawyers.

It was chaired by prof. H. M. Popov, with secretary M. M. Maevsky; honorary members were present: K. A. Arnshtein, I. M. Dogel; active members: prof. N. A. Mislavskiy, V. I. Levchatkin, I. I. Naumov, P. S. Skuridin, B. I. Vorotynskiy, V. V. Nikolaev and a significant number of the public.

Chaired by N. M. Popov, under the secretary V. V. Nikolaev; The following active members were present: K. V. Voroshilov, N. A. Mislavsky, V. I. Razumovsky, N. A. Tolmachev, L. F. Geberg, B. I. Vorotynsky, D. V. Polumordvinov, G. A. Klyachkin, E. A. Yanishevskiy; guests: Dr. Borman, Dr. Segel, Dr. Favorskiy, Dr. Mering, Dr. Pervushin, Dr. Martynov, Dr. Zabusov, Dr. Elinson and about a hundred people from the audience.