Vol XVIII, No 4 (1911)

The purpose of this report is, firstly, to share with our comrades the impressions and thoughts inspired by our inspection of various Russian psychiatric institutions, so we will try to highlight here those institutions that made the greatest impression on us and which, in our opinion, should be examined by comrades who also we will have to go on a scientific trip, secondly, we take the liberty of making an attempt to offer the attention of our comrades those activities that, in our understanding, are still necessary when caring for the restless, untidy and infectious patients of our Hospital.

The paranoid form of progressive dementia (dementia paranoides) was first identified by Kraepelin, who by this name designated a small group of cases characterized by the rapid development of completely ridiculous and incoherent ideas of persecution and greatness and an unusually early transition into a persistent state of confusion, accompanied by the phenomena of moderate excitement. It represents some kinship with dementia praecox and catatonia, but develops at an older age, otherwise it proceeds and ends.

The tendency to the formation of shortening - muscle information (contracture, pseudocontracture, retraction) is inherent in general myopathy and to a limited extent, especially in the late stage of the disease, is observed in all varieties of this suffering: both simultaneously with muscle pseudohypertrophy, and without them, with forms of local and common.

The author gives the history of the disease 4 cases of vertigo permanens; in all these cases, the clinical picture is very general. This disease develops in persons with neuropathic heredity, usually in adolescence, sometimes somewhat later.

A 31-year-old woman with a hereditary predisposition, following a difficult domestic scene that she had to endure (her husband's reproaches, having learned about her wife's betrayal), developed a mental illness.

The author cites 2 cases in which patients who complained of shortly before that onset, decreased vision, along with other symptoms of syphilis, the existence of neuritis optica was ascertained.

The report begins with a historical outline of the hospital's life from 1832, the year it was opened.

Chaired by prof. L.O. Darkshevich with the secretary Baklushinsky. Present: prof. V.P. Osipov; Dr.: Arkhangelskaya, Vishnevskiy, Donskov, V.I. Levchatkin, Sorokovikov, Pervushin, Veselitskiy, Dvornovich, Lopukhin, Sholomovich, Chalusov, Pavlenko, Glushkov, Tupitsin, Osokin.