Vol X, No 2 (1902)

On January 10, 1902, on the closing day of the 8th Pirogov Congress, the famous professor of Moscow University Alexei Yakovlevich Kozhevnikov died in Moscow at the age of 65.

He died from a severe and painful illness. Alarming rumors about his state of health gradually intensified and grew, but not long before his death, A. Ya. sent a telegram to the participants in the section of nervous and mental illnesses of the aforementioned Congress of Physicians expressing his gratitude in response to the greeting sent to him on January 4th.

Passing through the nervous department lately, you probably noticed two patients, a man and a woman, who already in appearance present a strikingly similar clinical picture. It is with these patients that I would like to introduce you today in more detail.

With regard to hysteria, it has long been said that there is no disease that it would not feign by faking one or another seizure, and regarding the so-called round ulcer of the stomach, it has also long been believed that there is no pathologist-anatomist who would not have eluded she is out of hand, leaving him deceived about her mysterious pathogenesis.

In 1667, the work of Nicholas Stenson was published, under the title: “Nicolai Stensonis. Elementorum Myologiae Specimen, seu musculi descriptio geometrica; cui accedunt Canis Carchariae dissectum Caput et dissectus piscis ex canum genere"

In this work, the author describes an interesting phenomenon observed after ligation of the abdominal aorta in an animal that Stenson calls Canis Carcharia. These phenomena consisted in paralysis of the hind limbs, which appeared immediately after the ligation of the aorta ("partium posteriorum omnium motum voluntarium toties cessare"), but with the removal of the ligation, the limbs again got the opportunity to move (sublato vinculo supervixit canis sine ullo motus incommodo).

At present, almost all psychiatric hospitals, asylums, and even small departments print their annual medical and economic reports. Such reports are of great practical and scientific importance. Their practical significance lies primarily in the fact that they acquaint the public with the inner life of the hospital, directly and openly report those sometimes sad events in this life, those accidents that often take place in psychiatric hospitals and which, unfortunately, , very often it is not even possible to foresee and warn. At the same time, the reports do not in the least hide these sad facts and sad events in the life of the hospital, they give them an appropriate explanation and indicate their causes.

The extensive volume contains 16 interesting lectures on nervous and mental illnesses. The name clinical, however, cannot be fully applied to all lectures, since sometimes the author either does not cite individual cases at all, the analysis of which should be the subject of a clinical lecture, or describes them only as an illustration of the views expressed.

Review of 3 publications: Schuster. For the treatment of convulsions in children; maas. About changes in the central nervous system after ligation of the vessels of the thyroid gland; A. Friedlander. Aphasia and dementia.

The author points out that hysterical symptoms from the mammary glands in some cases acquire great importance and special interest for neuropathologists and surgeons.

On March 11, Ivan Mikhailovich Balinsky, a well-known psychiatrist and honorary member of the Imperial Military Medical Academy, died of a serious illness in St. Petersburg.

The name of the deceased is one of those names that our domestic psychiatry cannot forget, and in its history he should rightfully be given an honorable place as the "father of Russian psychiatry."

Regarding the presentation by Prof. Arnstein found it possible to share the observations he himself made on the urinary bladder of animals. It is known that in addition to those nerve trunks that go from the spinal cord to the bladder in dogs and other animals and in which ganglionic nerve cells are found - sympathetic, multipronged, covered with pericellular networks, which are the endings of the spinal fibers, there are also other nerve cells. cells of a different type; cells of the second kind the opponent had to observe on the bladder only in rats.