Vol XVIII, No 3 (1911)

In the question of cerebral localizations, the attention of a neuropathologist is especially attracted by those centers whose activity causes complexes of muscle movements aimed at performing expedient actions. Articulate speech can serve as such an ideal type of purposeful movement.

Late Greek by birth; the family consists of a mother and five brothers, lives in abundance; brothers are intelligent people, mother is illiterate. These facts exhaust information about the family; we do not know whether there are indications of pathological heredity, or not, what was the attitude of the mother and brothers towards Z. The headmaster of the gymnasium did not even report the characteristics of the deceased, he does not say a word about his abilities, mental development, life interests.

From these examples it can be seen that subjectivity can be combined with objectivity, and how this phenomenon should be considered, for example, in Maupassant, as a hallucination or as a pseudo-hallucination from the point of view of Kandinsky. Of course, one has to consider it a hallucination, as Maupassant himself admits, since with visual pseudo-hallucinations, patients, as they themselves express themselves, see not usually with their eyes, but with mental eyes, therefore, it will be necessary to consider phenomena that are close to the images of fantasy as pseudo-hallucinations, when patients do not experience those usual peripheral sensations, as in hallucinations, in which the subject, although he may consider the given phenomenon to be subjective, but experiences the same sensation, as in peripheral stimuli.

Recently, the doctrine of primary muscular tabes has been enriched with several new facts that make it possible to expand our information regarding the symptomatology of this form, and at the same time with respect to its pathogenesis. Here I mean, firstly, the spread to almost the entire muscles of the myopathic of a particular state of her, usually observed only in a very limited number of muscles, namely, pseudo-contractions or muscle data; further, secondly, this includes a kind of disorder in the nutrition of the skeleton and changes in the rest of the body with myopathy.

Pfahl notes that when accurately studying the pattelar reflex using graphic curves, one should bear in mind the fact that when studying this reflex in a sitting position, it is necessary to take into account not only the effect of muscle contraction, the phenomenon of a reflex nature, but also to reckon with the influence of gravity, grounding the extensor movements of the leg. and accelerating flexion.

The author divides the measures proposed so far to combat epilepsy into 4 groups: 1) hygienic, medical and physical methods of treatment, 2) organ and serotherapy, 3) medicinal and 4) surgical treatment.

In the introduction, the author gives a brief overview of the current state of the issue of internal secretion; he cites theories proposed to explain the mechanism of interaction between individual glands and notes the enormous role played by internal secretion in normal metabolism and in the occurrence of a number of diseases.

At the Psycho-Neurological Institute, the position of assistant and dissector at the Department of Normal Anatomy is vacant. Doctors wishing to take this position are asked to send applications with curriculum vitae to the office of the Psychoneurological Institute (St. Petersburg, Nevskiy 104).

Chaired by prof. L.O.Darkshevich under the secretary Voroshilov. Present: prof. Osipov, Simileiskaya, Favorsky, Pervushin, Opokin, Chalusov, Baklushinsky, Arkhangelskaya, Goryaev, Mokin, Bolberg, Protopopov, Dvorkovich, Osipov, Pipkin, Vishnevsky, Nadel-Pruzhanskaya, Klyachkin, Voskresenskiy N. Dolgov, Ivanov and a human 10 students.