Vol VII, No 1 (1899)

On February 5th of this year, a patient came to our outpatient clinic with a complaint of severe headaches; these pains, which had lasted for about 2 months, at first appeared in him exclusively at night, and then did not stop during the day, although during the night they always took on a more cruel character. In the last time, an increase in headache was very often accompanied by vomiting and a feeling of goose bumps in the right extremities, in which the patient also began to suppress a clear decrease in strength, especially in the evening (during the day he was still in a state of some kind of work).

In view of the growing interest presented by Nissl's bodies for researchers studying the physiological and pathological structure of nerve cells, I consider it useful to publish the coloring method I have developed. In addition to the simplicity of the technique and the demonstrativeness of the preparations obtained, the proposed method has the advantage of great constancy: to this I can add that the studies of the fresh nervous cells (my studies have not yet been published) reveal the complete identity of the pictures obtained in the volume and in other cases.

By irritating the cortex of the cerebral hemispheres, it is possible to cause seizures of epileptic seizures in many animals. Their seizure can consist of a prodromal period, clonic and tonic stages, and a subsequent coma. This typical seizure is extremely easy to get in a monkey. Without big difficulties, it can be reproduced in a dog, rabbit, cat, guinea pig, horse, donkey, rat, calf, goat and even a sheep. Attempts to induce convulsions in birds, irritating their large hemisphere, remained fruitless. Similarly, it was not possible to achieve epileptic seizures in fish, reptiles and amphibians.

At the present time, when the issue of cerebral circulation has taken on such vast dimensions, and its importance has become increasingly clear, an attempt to study the influence of various nervous (if I may put it this way) means on the circulation of blood in the brain is quite understandable.

In the preface to the fifth (last) German edition of his manual, the author points out that in this edition his textbook has undergone significant and substantial changes, representing the last breakthrough transition from a symptomatological way of presenting a clinical study. In view of this, the author, when presenting, pays the main attention to the causes, course and outcome of mental disorders, pushing back into the background the meaning of external signs of mental illness. Since the Russian translation is delivered from the last German edition, it is likely to carry all the features of this edition, indicated by the author in the preface.

Having briefly touched on the main symptoms of Graves' disease and rejecting the current theory about the role of the thyroid gland in neutralizing the decay products of proteinaceous substances in the body, the author recommends the following treatment, which gave completely satisfactory results in his cases. In the evenings, or every other day, lubrication of the gland with one tincture and a compress; in a day faradization of the gland. Inside potassium iodide with sodium iodide and with an admixture of bromides. To regulate heart activity with tinct. convallariae majalis. From Migränin headache at 0, 75-1, 0 at night; in the evenings, warm baths at 35 ° C.

From the analysis of the work on bed rest, the author concluded that the authors who worked on this issue, not only do not pass to the same conclusion, but sometimes directly contradict each other, and tries to explain such a discrepancy by the fact that bed keeping by different authors is used far from unequal other conditions, as well as for various kinds of patients.

In this article, the author has applied the Golgi method for studying changes in the cells of the cerebral cortex in case of poisoning with arsenic, in case of infection with canine rabies, in case of poisoning with teberculin and in thyroidectomy.

From reliable sources, we can report that the State Council has allocated 9 million to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the construction of new District Hospitals for the mentally ill. This amount will go to the order of the Ministry for 1 million annually, starting from this year. As we have heard, the first hospitals will be built near Moscow, Yekaterinoslavl, Astrakhan, Tomsk and Riga.

In my work "Further research in the area of ​​the central endings of the X-th pair of cranial nerves", Dr. I do not agree with the author's conclusions about the central endings of the vagus nerve; this disagreement caused a protest on the part of the author, in the form of a letter to the editorial office of the "Neurological Bulletin", in which he insists on the correctness of his views; at the same time, it does not concern all the grounds that I have brought against his imprisonment; I will only touch on the area of ​​my work, which Dr. Klyachkin stops at, otherwise I would have to repeat everything in my article.

Chaired by N. M. Popov, under secretary B. I. Vorotynsky; The following active members were present: K. A. Arnshtein, K. V. Voroshilov, D. A. Timofeev, L. A. Serguev, G. A. Klyachkin, N. N. Toporkov, V. S. Boldyrev. Guests: Dr. Pervushin, Kavorskiy, Mering, Dolgov and about 30 people of the public.

The Society hereby ends the seventh year of its existence.
In the reporting year 1898, the Society had 8 meetings; including 1 year, 1 emergency and 6 regular.