Vol VI, No 4 (1898)

Modern psychopathology has put forward quite a few extremely difficult and complex issues, regarding which the views of scientists differ sharply from each other, and sometimes even directly contradict each other. Cautious authors usually refrain from presenting such controversial subjects, since it is never profitable to study "dangerous questions". Among the questions of this category should include, by the way, the question of the relation of genality to mental disorder, on the one hand, and this last day to crime, on the other.

The patient, whom I have chosen as the subject of our today's discussion, immediately stops attention on herself by her external appearance. You see a 10–12 year old girl, not very tall, thin; Apparently, there are still no traces of the era of formation on her, and between the dark of our patient she is 20 years old and she has been married for quite a long time. Such a discrepancy between external appearance and age even more catches the eye with detailed examination, which showed that the mammary glands are completely childish, the external genital organs are poorly developed, not covered with vegetation, the sleeve is barely passable for the finger, the uterus is childish.

If we now cast a general glance at the phenomena observed in our patient, then we will be convinced that she has damage to a number of cranial nerves on the left, namely all of the eye (in the first period of the disease), facial, trigeminal, visual and even olfactory. In addition, there is a defeat on the same side n. hypoglossi and glossopharyngei.

The relation of real systemic diseases to others, close to them, still remains a little-studied fact. Most of all, this applies to diseases of the anterior horns of the spinal cord and nuclei of the stem part of the brain. There are very few anatomical studies in this area, and any new fact in this direction, it seems to us, has scientific significance. And not only from the scientific, but also from the practical side, the study of these phenomena is of great interest. Studying clinical phenomena, we become unclear when explaining these or other phenomena and cannot find the corresponding anatomical changes. Two years ago, we had to observe a very interesting clinical case of illness, which presented no less interest in the anatomical study.

On Sunday, January 18, 1898, there was a wedding: Varvara D-va, a peasant from the village of Synkovo, Dobryatinskaya volost, Podolsk district, married to Ivan K-va, a peasant from the village of Romantsevo, Molodinskaya volost, Podolsk district. The event ended with a feast, which was attended by up to 20 guests, and during the day and night they drank 21/2 buckets of vodka ("sivukhi"). According to the assurances of young relatives, despite a fair amount of drunk, there were no drunks.

Physiology has not yet given us positive data on the function of the sympathetic nervous system. Only recently, histologists have been able to prove that the nerve cells located in large sympathetic nodes do not differ in their morphological properties from cells of the central nervous system. This gives the right to assume that in the sympathetic nodes there are independent centers that are in the same dependence on the higher centers, as, for example, the centers of the spinal cord from the brain. We have very little data on the relationship of the sympathetic nervous system to the innervations of the bladder. On this basis, the author began to study this issue in the physiological laboratory of prof. Pavlova at the M. Academy.

The author analyzes in detail Huntington's chorea based on rich literature and 8 own observations. In one case, the author was also able to study the central nervous system, peripheral nerves and individual muscles, and interesting results were obtained.

The work embraces all the literature on this issue and visually compares the changes found in the vascular system, connective and basic tissue, melin and other fibers. The author comes to the following conclusions.

October 10 p. Mr. Minister of Internal Affairs for the mentally ill visited the Kazan District Hospital for the mentally ill.
Privat-docent of Kazan University for the department of nervous and mental illnesses, doctor of medicine, B.I. Vorotynskiy, on January 1899 will be sent abroad for one year for a scientific purpose.

It was chaired by prof. N.M. Popov, under the secretary of B.I.Vorotynsky; The following members were present: N. A. Mislavskiy, N. A. Tolmachev, I. I. Naumov, M. M. Maevskiy, L. A. Sergeev; guests: Dr. Boldyrev and Dr. Toporkov.