Vol XI, No 2 (1903)

The question of the cross-linking of nerves of various functions has long occupied both physiologists and surgeons. The collapse of this question, according to Bidder's apt expression, could not be considered idle curiosity, but should have illuminated a number of important issues, for example, is the nerve an active or passive conductor.
The first work on this issue, Flourens'a, dates back to 1827; he stitched the central end of the 5th cervical nerve with a peripheral segment of the n-vi vagi.

In a small article under the title "de l'influence de l'écorce grise sur la dilatation de la pupille", published in C. R. de la Société de Biologie 1887 r. No. 13 I reported the results of my experiments on this question. The appearance of my work was caused by disagreement in the results obtained by Voshefontaine, Grünhagen and Bessau, on the one hand, and Kachanovsky, on the other, and was aimed not so much at studying the localization, already known then, of the cortical centers of pupil dilation, but rather to clarify the very method of action of the cortex.

In October last year, the resident of the Vinnitsa Regional Hospital, Dr. M.M. , having sent a copy of one of the histories of the disease and an explanatory note, he turned to the Society with a request to give his opinion on the new sample.

The frequency of arteriosclerosis in the mentally ill prompted the author to test the effects of Trunecek's serum in various mental illnesses. Serum injections are painful, often chronic hardening remains at the points of injection.

Physical disorders in prematurely weak-minded people, very carefully studied by Krapein'om, are expressed in the following: an increase, sometimes very sharp, tendon reflexes, an increase in mechanical excitability of nerves and muscles; dilated pupils, especially during the period of arousal; uneven pupils; cyanosis, edema, dermographism; increased saliva and sweating; change in heart rhythm; lowering temperature; wrong menstruation; an increase in the volume of the thyroid gland; bulging eyes, trembling, anemia; sleep disorder, increased body weight.

Ordinary Professor of Kazan University in the Department of Psychiatry, D.S. with. N.M. Popov was appointed professor of nervous and mental illnesses at Novorossiysk University.

Psychiatry, or, more precisely, psychopathology, occupies a separate position among other special sciences. Having her task to study deviations from a certain norm in the manifestations of the human spirit, she draws herself material from the analysis of extremely diverse phenomena that make up the subject of study of very many branches of the title.