Vol XVIII, No 1 (1911)

All literature concerning the general function of the cerebellum can be divided according to its content into three main groups. The first group will include the authors who recognize the cerebellum as an exclusive motor function, denying the coordinating one; to the other, on the contrary, one should include those authors who ascribe a coordinating role to the cerebellum, denying the motor role; to the third, finally, the authors, who admit both types of cerebellar influence, both coordinator and motor.

Without presenting an immediate danger to life, various kinds of neuralgia, often reaching an extremely strong degree of development, according to the severity of their main symptom, pain, are among the very severe and difficult to bear by patients suffering. The patient's well-being is even more difficult when it is not about neuralgic pains, characterized by attacks of acute pains, which are replaced by light gaps, but about pains that continue continuously, having in their basis a more persistent anatomical process, about neuritic pains.

The topic that I touch upon in this article is of outstanding scientific and practical interest, since the nerve seam is closely connected with the science about the healing of the nerve.

Among the various forms of epileptic development, a clinical group of cases of epilepsy stands out, which some authors call epilepsia gastrica. The genesis and even the ethiology of this group is foggy, and only the clinical picture of epilepsy makes us agree to the temporary allocation of these cases to the epilepsia gastrica group.

Based on his experiments on puppies and guinea pigs, the author draws conclusions

The symptom of Graefe is that the eyelid drops unsatisfactorily when the gaze is lowered, sometimes even a convulsive, continuing moment is observed, an upward movement, when raising the gaze, it rises with exaggerated vigor.

The author has made more than 450 studies of cerebrospinal fluid in progressive paralytics; he summarizes the results obtained by him in the following provisions.

The author recommends, in the treatment of epilepsy, the subcutaneous administration of Cerebrin in combination with the subcutaneous administration of arsenic (Natr. Cacodyl).

The author cites six stories of patients with chronic paralysis of neuritic origin, where previously conventional treatment was used, but no recent result. The etiology of the cases used by the author is very diverse: arsenic poisoning, alcohol abuse, diphtheria, etc.

Present: Prof .: L.O.Darkshevich, V.P. Osipov, Dr.: V.I. Levchatkin, V.N. Osipova, V.P. Pervushin, I.A., Veseligskiy, P.S. Skuridin, N. A. Donskov, A. S. Sholomovich, guests, Dr.: Voskresenskiy, Baklushinskiy, Lapukhin, Arkhangelskaya, Yakhontov, Enokhin, Lopatin, Protopopov, Emdin and several. dozens of medical students.

Chaired by prof. L.O. Darkshevich with the secretary Voroshilov. Attended by: prof. Mislavskiy, prof. Osipov, doctors: Pervushin, Favorsky, Goryaev, Vishnevsky, Veselitsky, Golovin, Zhilin, Emdin, Lapukhin, Nikolaevsky, Donskov N.A., Donskov V.A., Klyachkin, Baklushinsky, Belitsky, Popov, Cheboksarov, Sholomovich and people 20 students.