Vol XXII, No 2 (1915)

Dreams at all times attracted the attention of humanity and played, according to Spencer, a very important role in the development of the initial worldview. Of course, according to the development of a man, his view of dreams also changed. The primitive savage gave his dreams the character of validity, believing that in a dream he was actually in those places, and talked with those whom he saw in a dream. Homer pointed to dreams as a means used by the gods of Olympus to communicate their commands to mortals or to warn pets against any misfortunes. In biblical times, thanks to Joseph's successful interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, the future fate of Israel was ruined. Apparently, Nebuchadnezzar had special interpreters of dreams at the court. This need for the interpretation of dreams exists to the present time, and is satisfied for the common people by the publication of various kinds of "dream books". The belief in the prophetic meaning of dreams has its origins in antiquity, and now you can still meet the supporters of this view. Xenophon believed that in a dream the soul becomes more divine and can foresee future events. Caesar's wife, who saw a bad dream, warned him on the day of the murder.

The described case of acute serous meningitis is of interest in many respects. Ethiological moment and all its course is somewhat unusual, symptomatology is rich and atypical for serous meningitis.

Dreams play a rather large role in the life of the common people. This was observed both in the past historical times, as well as at the present time. There are not only people interpreting the meaning of dreams, but even special manuals of dream books. Until now, not only the lowest, but even the middle class of the population put their actions in dependence on the seen dreams. This is especially vivid in people with low intelligence and in the mentally ill.

In my work - Die Abbauerscheinungen bei Tabes dorsalis - I showed that cases of tabes of the spinal cord, by the nature of the destruction processes occurring in the cerebrospinal axis, can be divided into two categories. The first group should include cases where the processes of destruction are of the purely ectodermal type (according to Schröder’y), that is, when the main role in the processes of destruction of the nervous tissue is taken on by the resulting removal of glucose cells, i.e. the name. granular clumps (Körnchenzellen, Gitterzellen). The second group should include the cases where the processes of destruction proceed according to the type of the so-called. amoeboid cells, that is, when the predominant participation in the processes of destruction of nervous tissue falls on the amoeboid cells formed from the preexisting glucose cells described by Alzheimer.

1). 29 / i. Visitor of the Society A. I. Chirikhin: A case of lesion of the elbow joint with syringomyelia (with a demonstration of the patient).

Estimated income and expenditure of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrs for 1915.