Vol XVI, No 1 (1909)

The central apparatus of the human body, on which the equal distribution of blood throughout the body depends, - the heart, is not an organ completely independent in its functions in the body, but is always under the strict control of the nervous system. At the present time it is well known that there are nerves that change the activity of the heart - its rhythm either towards acceleration or deceleration, and that the heart is equipped with a special nervous mechanism, with the help of which it can change blood pressure, if the latter is very high in the beginning of the aorta, or if the ventricles of the heart are full and thus the emptying of the ventricles is difficult. This nervous apparatus is represented in the animal organism as a so-called depressor nerve. The action of the depressor nerve consists in the fact that when it is excited and its excitement, the total blood pressure drops sharply and the heartbeats are significantly slowed down. Both effects are aimed at allowing the ventricles of the heart to empty more easily from their contents and in this way to reduce the work that the heart would have to do. T. about. this nerve is, as it were, a natural regulator for the heart, as it is called. Regarding why a decrease in blood pressure occurs during irritation of a depressor, the opinions of physiologists are still not the same. Most physiologists with Suon in the head see in a decrease in pressure, in case of irritation of a depressor, the result of oppression of the center of vasoconstrictors, however, there is another view, which, however, has few defenders, according to which the drop in pressure, due to the stimulation of the center of the depressor, is due to irritation. T. the question of the influence of a depressor on one or another center is still open, and the existence of the very center of vasodilators is clearly questioned by some authors; and I think that my attempt to clarify this issue, undertaken at the suggestion of the highly respected teacher, my prof. NA Mislavsky will be, although not entirely new, but far from superfluous.

In 1897, V. Ermengem established that the well-known phenomena of botulism in the clinic owe their origin to a special pathogenic saprophytic bacillus discovered by him, bacillus botulinus. He stated that the pathogenic action of this bacillus depends on that toxic principle, which lies in its protoplasm and those environments, strictly anaerobic, where it is able to develop. Introducing the culture of this bacillus or its pure toxin into the animals' mouth or under the skin, he became convinced that some of them are very sensitive to this poison, others are less susceptible and, finally, others are completely immune. The first to include rabbits, mice, guinea pigs, monkeys, which died with typical phenomena of botulism from the minimum doses. The second group includes cats, pigeons, and rats, which perished from more high doses; to the third, he classifies dogs, hens and,. mainly frogs, fish, cyprinus, which, according to him, have complete immunity. However, establishing the fact that animals are different in relation to the pure toxin bac. botulinus, V. Ermengem often does not provide definite data on the lethal minimum dose of the toxin for these animals. There is an exact indication of the dose of the toxin only for pigs and rabbits, and partly for a cat.

A comprehensive study of Thomsen's disease has been accomplished quite a bit, and for the mood, in the words of R. I. Rossolimo, “it seems that the time has come when the study of typical cases gave everything that could be demanded from it, having established a more or less exact picture of the disease , and when there was a need for help on the part of deviations from the typical form. " However, the question of the essence and genesis of this suffering can hardly be considered explained satisfactorily enough to neglect the description of the not so often encountered individual cases of myotonia, even if even these cases differed little from typical ones.

The author proposes the following simplified modification of the Nissl color: kb 1.0 Azur II solution in 750.0 Aq. destill. add 4 drops of saturated Kalium Carbon immediately before use, for each 10.0 Azur II solution. Svezhіy, compacted in the ascending concentration of alcohol, material, filled in paraffin, is painted in the decree, dissolve for 1 minute without any heating. Differentiated: 1.0 aniline. oils, 9.0 alcohol 96%; eclipse 30 sec. absol. alcohol, 30 seconds xylene, origan oil and Canadian balsam. The old material is painted for 4-5 minutes, 2 cases were taken from the Chinese and 1 from the Indian were painted by the author for comparison in both ways. The author is very pleased with the results and illustrates them in 13 photograms.

The author describes in great detail 4 cases of subacute poliomyelitis of adults and gives a pathological and anatomical picture of the disease on 16 photographic photographs. 

The author at the suggestion of prof. Ziehen gives an accurate description of the case of cerebellar atrophy in order to enrich casuistry.

The author describes a case of cerebral sensitivity affection of the spinal type that was observed by him after the literature. 22 years old soldier epileptic; seizures began with tonic. convulsions in the right hand, overshadowing the clonic of the entire right half of the body, paresis of the right hand, absence of the right celiac reflex; from the right side of the refl. Babinsky

Based on the study of two cases of dry mouth cn. of the brain, with symptoms of Graves' disease, the author concludes: in isolated cases of tabes, a disease of the sympathetic nervous system is added, which gives clearly expressed symptoms, especially when the cervical n. sympathies.

In the course of events that took place in the current year in the Parisian society of neuropathologists, on the issue of hysterical trophic disorders, opposite opinions were expressed: Raymond Pitres admitted their existence; other neuropathologists with Babinsky in the head, argued that skin changes are always caused by artificially simulating patients (Revue neurol. Nos. 8 and 10).

The causes of mental illnesses are still far from clear, and therefore new developments in this direction are not surprising. The authors asked themselves to determine what role syphilis plays in mental illness.

The author reported a case of the Mongolian idiocy of three and half months, with a history of hereditary syphilis.

It was already noticed by the old psychiatrists that idiocy is often combined with a heart of small size.

The ardent supporter of Freud — Jung, from the very beginning, stipulates that the stated theory does not at all pretend to be an exhaustive solution to the question of hysteria — this is only a hypothesis, convenient for working in the field of hysteria and entirely based on experience.

The author's impressions of this operation are not in her favor. The goal that the surgeon, resorting to such an operation, sets himself, namely, to return to the patient the lost symmetry of the face during rest, voluntary and affective movements, is not achieved at all.

Bearing in mind the reports of Weiss and Zweig on the successful use of this one in the treatment of tabes dorsalis, the author decided to test this remedy on tabiks in the clinics of prof. Raymond'a.

At the December meeting of the Society of Psychiatrists in St. Petersburg, on the discussion of the provisions on the forthcoming III Congress of Russian psychiatrists, it was decided to petition the government for permission to convene the III Congress of domestic psychiatrists in St. Petersburg, in December 5, 1909, on December 19, 1909. of the year; In the same meeting, the election of members of the organizational committee of the congress was made (Review of Psychiatry 1908, No. 12).

Chaired by prof. V.P. Osipov under the secretary of Dr. V.P. Pervushin. There were actions. members: Dr. I. A. Veselitsky, A. V. Gavorsky, A. S. Sholomovich, N. A. Donskov, L. A. Serguev and guests: Dr. S. A. Bolberg, V. K. Voroshilov, M. M. Khomyakov, I. Zhilin, M. A. Chalusov, Goltsvogt and a human 20 senior medical students.