Vol VIII, No 2 (1900)

On May 1, 1900, an ordinary professor of the Moscow University, Sergei Sergeevich Korsakov, who was born on January 22, 1854, died in Moscow. The deceased is the son of a hereditary honorary citizen and comes from a noble family, which accidentally, during a plague, in the past century, lost its hereditarily noble rights. His father was an educated man, very intelligent.

The hospital for the mentally ill in Ene, which is also the clinic of Ene University, does not represent anything special. It is located in the most elevated part of the city according to Ober philosopher Weg, from where an excellent walk opens both to the city itself and to the surrounding, picturesquely spread mountains.

In speaking with this communication, I mean mainly to give a description of the picture, the data, which I received when studying the brain of a man who died of traumatic tetanus. The interest of this study lies, by the way, in the fact that the material for my work was a fresh human brain, and the study could be done using the Nissl method, which of course is not always possible. We usually have the opportunity to study the human brain already at a time when the corpse has undergone significant decomposition, when, consequently, the application of the Nissl method is not entirely reliable, and the results obtained in this case are inconclusive and doubtful. Since I performed the study of the brain mainly according to the Nissl method, I consider it necessary to say a few words beforehand about this method.

As you know, sexual perversions can be expressed in a very diverse form. Consideration of various external manifestations of this anomaly is not included in our task. In the proposed work, we would like to give only a brief description of one case of sexual perversion, which occurs in the form described below, apparently not often.

Published the first part of the manual of forensic psychopathology prof. Item II. Kovalevsky contains two parts: a psychological essay (a short essay on the normal mental life of a man) and a criminal psychology (criminal psychology). According to the plan outlined by the author, the second part will set out the general morbid deviations in the mental life of a person, having contact with the court (special judicial psychiatry).

The material for the study served the author a number of cases that were introduced by him at the autopsies in the pathological anatomical theater of the Moscow educational house. 14 cases are described in more detail, which refer either to premature babies, b. h. dead-born, fetuses (about the 8th month of pregnancy), or to children born in the normal period and after birth who have lived some, b. or m. short, time (from several hours and maximum up to 2 years).

We often hear that the conclusions drawn from experiments with damage to the cerebral cortex, performed on dogs, cannot be transferred to humans. Although Goltz does not share this view, he readily admits that it would be desirable for the study concerning the sending of various parts of the brain to be extended to such animals, the structure of which is closest to the structure of a human. At the present time there are already quite a significant number of published experiments carried out with success on monkeys. Personally, the author has relatively few materials, but he considers one of his experiments worthy of a detailed presentation.

Making a comparative study of the region of the nuclei of the posterior pillars in various animals, the author was convinced that there could be another (paired or unpaired) nucleus inside of the Gaulle nucleus.

The rule of admission of female doctors to scientific employment in educational auxiliary institutions of the Imperial Military Medical Academy is also extended to the clinic of mental and nervous diseases, which is currently an independent institution, not subordinate to the military so far. Women doctors will be admitted to this clinic (for a period of two years) with a special permission for each case of permission of the head of the Academy on the presentation of the director of the clinic, Academician V.M.Bekhterev.-Nov. Time.

Chaired by N. M. Popov, under the secretary V. V. Nikolaev; attended by Messrs. honorary members: E. V. Adamyuk, K. A. Arnshtein, I. M. Dogel; biennium Active members: V. S. Boldyrev, V. I. Vasyatkin, B. I. Vorotynskiy, A. F. Geberg, V. N. Dolgov, G. A. Klyachkin, N. A. Mislavskiy, I. I. Naumov, D. V. Polumordvinov, I. A. Praksin, V. I. Razumovskiy, A. S. Segell, L. A. Sergѣev, A. I. Smirnov, I. V. Sorokovikov, D. A, Timofeev, A. E. Yapishevskiy; guests: prof. D. I. Dubyago, prof. P. M. Lyubimov, E. K. Meyer, Dr. Kampov, Melkikh, Rgmovich, Nebolyubov, Fedorov, Romanov, Favorskiy, Pechurkin, Ryasintsev and about 250 people of the public.