Vol XVIII, No 2 (1911)

Suicide is a profoundly abnormal phenomenon. That is why every case of him involuntarily attracts general attention even in our time, when a person's life has fallen so low in value. But if what has just been said is true in relation to suicide in general, all the more it matters when it comes to children.

When choosing dogs, one has to pay attention mainly to the age of the dog. Young and old dogs are not suitable for experiments on the cerebellum. Young ones are not suitable because their bones are not sufficiently compacted; they are porous, riddled with bony sinuses overflowing with blood, and are therefore bleeding.

The author gives a medical history and the results of a detailed microscopic examination of a case in which he was diagnosed with multiple tumors of the nervous system during his lifetime. Based on post mortem research, which revealed the existence of numerous tumors of the membranes of the spinal cord and brain, peripheral nerves and roots, the author views this case as a rare form of Recklingausen’s disease, in which there are no skin tumors that occur in almost all cases of this disease.

The author describes 2 cases of Fridreich’s disease (one of them with autopsy); both of them represent the peculiarity that, along with the typical symptoms of this disease, they had rather pronounced atrophy of the muscles of the arms and legs, and atrophic phenomena prevailed in the peripheral parts of the upper and lower extremities

In this paper, Clérambault cites 14 personal observations of acute and chronic ether poisoning. 4 of his patients are men, the rest are women; almost all of them are relatively young. In almost all cases, various signs of mental degeneration could be ascertained.

A 19-year-old subject was hit in the right eye by a bullet and entered the cranial cavity and remained there.

The author produced injections of Ehrlich Hata for syphilis of the central nervous system, for tabes dorsalis and paralysis progressiva. The most favorable results were obtained by him in syphilis of the central nervous system.

There were 37,000 patients in 145 hospitals. 20 provinces and regions do not have a single civil psychiatric hospital; some figures indirectly illustrate even more clearly the formulation of psychiatric care for the population in Russia.

The author examines the results of the card registration of patients, carried out by zemstvo doctors.

The past year is the 19th year of the Society's life. By arranging scientific meetings and publishing a special journal "Neurological Bulletin", the Society contributed to the development of questions on anatomy, microscopic anatomy, nervous physiology, psychology, neuropathology and psychiatry with the pathological anatomy of the toxicity of nervous and mental and forensic disorders,

Chaired by prof. L.O. Darkshevich under the secretary of Dr. V. K. Voroshilov. Attended by: prof. Osipov, Chistovich, doctor Pervushin, favorsky, Mikhailov, Nikolaevsky, Protopopov, N. A. Donskov, V. A. Donskov, Bolberg, Lopatin, Tsypkin, Golovin, Chirkovsky, Emdin, Arkhangelskaya, Semileyskaya, Skuridin, Kushelevsk students.