Vol VIII, No 1 (1900)

Died on December 3, 1899, an honorary member of our Society, Professor K.V. Voroshilov, born on February 1, 1842.

The important question of degeneration, put forward in the newest time thanks to the careful development of the scholarship on inheritance, was still mainly occupied by psychiatrists and anthropologists - criminologists. True, numerous studies of Charcot, Féré, Mőbius and a friend, have shown that in the ethology of nervous diseases, pathological inheritance plays a very prominent role, and some categories of nervous patients, as, for example, have long been attributed to great historical, epileptic, class of degenerate.

The XIX century, marked by a colossal progress in all branches of human knowledge, as expected, did not remain without influence in cultural countries to improve the situation of keeping, treating and looking after the mentally ill. A hundred years ago, the famous French psychiatrist Pinel, who removed the chains from the mentally ill, to whom they were attached, and preached humane treatment of such patients, gave a push to this at the end of a hundred years ago. A whole series of the following psychiatrists in all civilized countries tried to put this principle into practice and develop it further; thanks to their scientific research, they raised psychiatry as a science to the respectable place that it occupies among other branches of medical knowledge. The society, awakened from the gripping of its perpetual indifference to the fate of its unfortunate fellows who got sick, as if conscious of its guilt for the deprivation that the mentally ill previously experienced in the old hospitals - prisons, begins to worry little about the result In recent years, in our country and in all civilized states, one after another, new psychiatric hospitals are growing — whole palaces, where, down to the smallest details, everything is foreseen, according to the newest views, for the rational maintenance and treatment of their sick people. Hospitals such as Herzberge and Wuhlgarten near Berlin, Dziekanka near Gnezen, the famous colony for the mentally ill Alt-Scherbitz, clinics in Halle and Hedelberg, Munsigen hospitals in Switzerland and Kierling in Switzerland, with their orders and orders, amaze in them, and the achieved results in the maintenance and treatment of the mentally ill.

In 1897, the light work of P. Sollier was published under the title: "The origin and nature of hysteria". This is an extensive work in two large volumes. The entire second volume consists of 20 detailed diaries of diseases related to persons who have suffered from the most severe forms of hysteria and who have been treated by Sollier according to his special method with exceptional versus all conventional methods of treatment success. This 2nd volume has the meaning of a bunch of documents in relation to the first volume, which sets out the Sollier's own study of hysteria based on them.

The work of the author was carried out in the laboratory of prof. V.M. Bekhterev and is a very conscientious study, performed with great diligence and scrupulous care. The author's dissertation is in the form of an extensive monograph devoted to the study of the fiber systems that are part of the good substance of the human spinal cord. In the historical literary essay, we find a complete summary of everything that was obtained by previous authors using various methods of research.

Prof. Anfimov promptly raises in the Russian special literature the question of the fact that the study of polyneuritis currently requires a complete revision. In the analyzed work, the author carries out the main idea that the so-called polyneuritis and ascending paralysis of Landry are one and the same suffering, the cause of which must be sought in one or another lesion of cells (or neurons) of the central nervous system.

In the first part of his work, the author gives a literary survey of the question of the central conductors of general sensitivity. The order of presentation is as follows: sensitive pathways of the spinal cord, brain stem, large brain (from thalamus opticus to the cortex); at the end, the author examines the arguments in favor of one or another localization of the sensory motor region in the cortex.

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Chaired by H. M. Popov, under secretary V. V. Nikolaev; there were active members: K. A. Arnstein, A. F. Geberg, V. N. Dolgov, G. A. Klyachkin, N. A. Mislavskiy. M. M. Maevskiy, I. I. Naumov, V. N. Obraztsov, D. V. Polumordvinov, A. S. Segel, L. A. Serguev, P. S. Skuridin, Sorokovikov, D. A. Timofeev, N. A. Tolmachev, N. N. Toporkov, A. E. Yanishevskiy, guests: Dr. Kovalevskiy, Favorskiy and about 45 people of the public.

Nowadays, the Society is finishing the eighth year of its existence. In the reporting year 1899, the Society had 6 scientific appointments — 1 year and 5 successive ones, on which 10 messages were sent on the following topics: 1) Prof. N.M. Popov. On the question of the localization of cortical centers in a man (with a demonstration of the patient). 2) Dr. A.E. Yapishevskiy. On the issue of descending fiber systems in the posterior columns of the spinal cord (with a demonstration of drugs).