Vol X, No 3 (1902)

The Kazan Pharmacological Laboratory has been developing the issue of vasomotor nerves for many years.

Dr. M. Sergeev in 1890 published the first preliminary report (On the doctrine of blood circulation in Metbrapa nictitans Ranae Esculentae. Bulletin of Natural History No. 1. 1891), in which he states the fact that the irritation of the central segment n. ischiadici causes vasospasm in the Membrana nictitans of the same side, and in 1891 a second preliminary report under the same title in No. 9 of the Natural History Bulletin, where he describes the continuation of his experiments, which finally made it possible to establish the route of transmission of irritation from the central segment n. ischiadici on the vessels of Membranae nicitanis ranae esculentae.

Typhoid fever, affecting the nervous system, can give an extremely diverse clinical picture, depending on the place and method of its impact. In this respect, among other infectious diseases, it is closest to the syphilitic infection. Like syphilis, typhoid poison affects all tissues entering the nervous system; with it, peripheral nerves, membranes of the brain and spinal cord, blood vessels and medulla can get sick. But besides the similarity in the diversity of clinical symptoms, typhoid fever in some cases resembles syphilis also in the remarkable selectivity of the action of the poison on the nervous system: despite the general intoxication, for some reason certain parts of the nervous system are sometimes involved in the process, certain parts of them are affected.

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 clinical picture of chronic ergotism has now been developed in some detail. As for the pathological and anatomical changes in the body during ergot poisoning, and especially changes in the central nervous system, these issues still seem to be little studied. The author of his work aimed to fill these gaps.

A 62-year-old subject has a brain stroke, loss of consciousness, right spasmodic hemiplegia, the right labial fold is slightly felt, there is no hemianesthesia, but when pinching the right side, the patient makes uncoordinated movements with paralyzed muscles; healthy hand does not bring one to the irritated place, but does it on the healthy side when it is irritated.

The doctrine of the physical signs of degeneration is based mainly on statistical data. Regarding a number of anomalies in the structure of organs, there are great disagreements between the authors: what one considers an insignificant variety, the other takes as a sign of degeneration; in what one is inclined to see degeneration, in that the other is a pathological phenomenon.