Vol X, No 4 (1902)

Experiments are known in the literature, during which experimenters, crossing the sensory nerve roots, observed paresis and even paralysis of the motor sphere of this area in the test animals. Claude-Bernard (Leсons sur la physiologiе du systéme nerveux. 1863), cutting the posterior roots of the sciatic nerve in a frog, received paralysis of a limb that had lost sensitivity as a result of such an operation.

In man, individual muscle contractions can occur with remarkable speed, according to the physiologist Landois. The fastest movement that he could make with his right hand, imitating the writing of two letters n, showed that there were about 0.0564 seconds for each rise and fall; therefore, he could make about 18 movements per second.

When studying the speed of movements, we put in the foreground eye movements, the determination of the speed of which is important in many respects.

In September 1901, at a congress of physiologists in Turin, Marenhi demonstrated to members of Congress two rabbits in which he had performed a unilateral transection of the optic nerve inside the skull. In both rabbits, a light reaction was noted on the operated side, which differed from the reaction of the uninjured side in its lethargy and limited size. This paradoxical fact was observed by Marenhi in several operated animals, both immediately after the operation and for many months after it.

The advances in organotherapy and serotherapy in recent decades have given rise to a whole range of remedies, even those whose foundations rest on shaky foundations; therapy often makes painful efforts, energetically following new trends in medicine and trying to apply more and more new remedies, the offers of which often exceed demand, but which still do not satisfy the hopes placed on them, since they are partly only varieties of other remedies that no longer satisfy the expectations presented. requirements for them. Just as easily and quickly new medicines appear and spread at the present time, so easily and quickly some of them are forgotten.

All flora and fauna is surrounded by a gaseous medium called the atmosphere. It plays a very important part in the life of all organized beings; all organisms will draw in this environment everything necessary for their existence, such as: warmth, light, humidity, etc.

The just-released, excellently published work of the intern of the Vinnitsa Regional Hospital L.F. Yakubovich makes an extremely good impression in terms of its content. This is not a dry official report, but a description of the various ways in which labor is used in the treatment and education of the mentally ill.

The author studied the nerve nodes of the heart in animals (rabbits and dogs) poisoned with street rabies poison and fixed poison, and in humans in two cases of death from rabies. In all cases, he did not find any specific changes in the nerve cells. Nerve nodes were infiltrated with leukocytes, stromal cells proliferated.

After the reports of Ballet and Bauer'a, M. and G. examined 6 patients with vitiligo and it turned out: the absence of syphilitic infection

Changes in the central nervous system during menstruation cannot be viewed only as purely reflex, caused by local processes of peripheral irritation of the ovarian nerves. During menstruation, a very important general biological process takes place, in which the vascular and nervous systems take part. Nervous and mental changes are only a particular phenomenon in the overall picture.

Defenders of existence so-called. subcortical aphasia is considered a hallmark of it from cortical aphasia - the absence of complications from other types of speech disorders. Under the supervision of the author for ten years there was a patient who had lost: the ability to arbitrarily pronounce words, the ability to repeat words, the ability to read aloud. Completely internal speech was preserved and the ability to write freely, the ability to copy, the ability to write from dictation, the understanding of words, the ability to read silently was preserved.

Making an outline of the development of the method of suspension in therapy, the author of the article cites, among other things, interesting statistical data collected by Dr. Ostankov. These data refer to 2212 cases of nervous diseases, in the treatment of which various methods of suspension were used. The success of the treatment was obtained in 902 cases, with the highest percentage of successful treatment falling on the tabetics.

Honorary members of the Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists at Kazan University Professor-Academician V. M. Bekhterev and Honored Prof. IM Dogel were elected honorary members of the Yuryev University. This year marks the end of the 30th anniversary of the service of professor of Kiev University P. A. Sikorsky.

Opening the meeting, Mr. Chairman announced the death of the current member of the Society, prof. AI Smirnov, whose memory those present honored by standing up. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Dr. A. S. Segel gave a (preliminary) report—"The Effect of Temperature on Conduction Velocity in the Nerve."

Corrections from the Journal of Neurological Bulletin Volume X, Issue 2, on page 74 line 5; on page 73 line 5; on page 76 line 2 below