Vol XI, No 3 (1903)

The innervation of the rectum generally occupied quite a few researchers. In our historical part, we will not deal in detail with the issue of cerebrospinal innervation recti and its obturator apparatus. The interested reader will find a detailed historical overview of this issue in the work of L. ѵ. Francl-Hoclwartfû and Alfred-Fröhlichʹа - "lieber Tonus und Jnnervation der Spliincteren des Anus", submitted by them in the laboratory of prof. Basha in Vienna.

“Les médecins ne doivent pas ignorer ni mépriser les maux passés” says E. Foderé in his textbook on Epidemiology and Public Hygiene, describing Raphania. This phrase, said in 1823, nevertheless turned out to be premature, giving Raphania the name of "past misfortune", since the subsequent events clearly proved that ergotism is still not past, but present, which can bring a lot of grief, wakefulness. But at the present time Foderé would have every right to call ergotism “maux passés” in relation to almost all of Western Europe. For Germany, France, Switzerland and some other states, epidemics of ergotism in both of its forms, gangrenous and convulsive, there really is only terrible, to happiness has already departed into the realm of devotion, "maux passés". 

The author, on the basis of a series of measurements of skulls, comes to the following conclusions. Although the craniometry strives for mathematically accurate calculations, the last one does not always succeed due to irregularities in the structure of the skull. Changing the skull on living people is of incomparably greater significance, since at the same time it is possible to study the intellect and character of the study.

The author pays special attention to the shape of the pathological muscle contraction, the curve of which can give an accurate representation of the painful state of the muscle. Trying to determine the semiological meaning of myographic curves for various nerve-muscle lesions.

In a short message at the congress of psychiatrists and neuropathologists in Brussels, in 13 sections, which had a place from 1-8 August n. pp., the author points to a completely new, in his opinion, sign of the initial stage of progressive paralysis - the elongation of the pupillary reaction from poisons, observed by him in several cases together with Vurpas.