Vol XXII, No 3-4 (1915)

In the works attributed to Hippocrates, there is a chapter devoted to dreams. It is interesting to get acquainted with the views of the ancient doctor. Both in the present time and in antiquity, dreams were given a well-known meaning and tried on the basis of them to judge the state of the organism; In this sense, dreams for the ancients had a medical meaning, and it was only necessary to be able to explain Dreams, or reasonably judge them, as Hippocrates said.

Despite the fact that the thyroid gland was described by Wharton back in 1664, its biological role for the animal organism became clear only in the second half of the past century. Until that time, the most diverse representations existed about the significance of this organ.

Dejerine and Mouzon (Revue neurolog. 1915. No. 17-18), when examining two patients with wounds to the skull in the area of ​​the sensitive zone of the cerebral cortex, note the special nature of the disorders observed at the same time. Therefore, it is possible to identify a sensitive cortical syndrome, which is characterized by almost complete preservation of tactile sensitivity, normal thermal and pain, with a significant change in the stereognostic feeling, the position of parts of the body. From changes in sensitivity with a disease of a visual hillock, the syndrome under consideration is distinguished by a partial disorder of sensitivity, while for diseases of a visual hillock, a change in all types of sensitivity is characteristic.