Vol VI, No 3 (1898)

Disorders of mental activity during catatonia, based on my observations, are very different from what many authors have seen with this disease. At the beginning of my study of catatonia, for a long time I could not understand why what I saw was so different from the descriptions of this disease in textbooks, I did not trust my observations for a long time, explaining this disagreement with the imperfection of research, tried to find what they saw in other observers. But the more I studied these patients, the more I became convinced that the mental disorders of the catatonic patients were still described neurologically. I insist that the catatonic people do not have any delusions or hallucinations; even illusions are extremely rare.

There is not a single poison, not a single infection that would produce such a variety of changes in the body as syphilis. Not a single organ is guaranteed against this terrible scourge of modern humanity. More syphilis does not spare the central nervous system, which, thanks to the modern conditions of life, is a locus mi-noris resistentiae. Damaging this organ, it produces an extremely variegated picture of both pathological and anatomical changes and clinical manifestations and course, depending on the diversity of the nature of the process, very different localization, speed or slowness of development.

Until the eighties of the present century, anatomists and neuropathologists developed the question of the endings of the auditory nerves in the medulla oblongata, expressing at the same time many different assumptions about the origins of them in various places of this brain, for them a different number of roots and ascribing to them all possible directions.

Combined eye paralysis, known by the name ophthalmoplegia, has long attracted the attention of clinicians and has already collected and published a lot of observations related to this suffering, due to which there is an extensive clinical material in this relation. At the same time, individual observations of eye paralysis are still of vital scientific interest in many respects. In view of this, we will focus on the case below, which, among many others, presented itself to my observation and which, in my opinion, deserves special attention.

Published by the second German edition (the first edition was published in 1894), the guidance of prof. The Oppenheim on Nervous Diseases is currently one of the most extensive and complete since the Gowers' leadership.

Over the past time, a large number of works have appeared aimed at studying the finest structure of nervous cells in various physiological and pathological states. These studies gave impetus mainly to the Nissl method, which allowed to penetrate a little deeper into the structure of the body of the cell.

The question of the normal and pathological histology of nerve cells is increasingly occupying the minds of specialists-researchers of different countries. Despite the fact that the results obtained do not yet make it possible to talk about them, as about the last word in this area of ​​knowledge, the work on combining the accumulated material is not the same. So Nissl gives in his work about hypotheses of the functions of nerve cells; In such a form, a particular question appears about the recovery of sick motor cells (after cutting the nerve fiber, in case of poisoning with poison), etc. Some authors ask themselves the question of facilitating further work, carefully collecting the existing literature. The last one includes, by the way, the work of Dr. Muravyov (Russian Archives of Pathology, etc. 1897. December), as well as the work written out above by Prof. Goldscheider and Dr. Flatau.

In February month s. Mr. G.A.Klyachkin opened a hydrotherapy clinic in Kazan. There is an office for treatment with electricity and massage at the Healing Center. The hospital is supplied with all the aids necessary for hydrotherapy and treatment with electricity and massage, according to modern science guidelines. The massage is supervised by a special doctor and a midwife-masseuse. Patients in the hospital use common baths (ordinary, mineral, electric, steam), wipes, wrapped in simple, local baths. In the soul department there is a common soul (Charcot soul, circular, etc.) and various local souls. The free, in need of treatment with water, electricity and massage, are used on an outpatient basis. In addition, according to the statute of the hospital, patients can also be admitted for inpatient treatment. For this, the number of beds for the first time is limited to two, while the number of them is supposed to be increased in the present.

Dr. Osipov, in the named article, concerns, by the way, my work related to the same issue, and expresses an opinion that completely disagrees with my conclusions regarding n. ambiguus and connections between roots and nuclei n. vagi.

It was chaired by prof. H. M. Popov, with the secretary V. V. Nikolaev; attended by: honorary member of the island I.M.Dogel, acting members: K.V. Voroshilov, HA Mislavsky, N. A. Tolmachev, I. G. Savchenko, N. I. Naumov, B. I. Vorotynsky, A. E. Yanishevskiy, G. A. Klyachkin; guests: Dr. Egorov, Tsvetaev, Elinson, Lentsner, Favorskiy, Segel, Martynov and about 120 people of the public.