Vol XIV, No 2 (1907)

The question of the independence and differential recognition of the nervous form of the stiffness of the spine belongs to relatively new questions of neuropathology; however, in spite of the novelty of the question, a rather extensive literature has already been created in Russia and abroad; there are no less than forty works specially devoted to him, new works appear, and such a keen interest on the part of neuropathologists undoubtedly indicates the importance of this issue for them.

The new influences, which are more and more persistently bursting into the field of scientific psychology, threatening to destroy many positions, with the force of centuries-old traditions rooted in the old doctrine of the soul, in the last decade have definitely come out under the banner of that great law of energy, which in its principle has impoverished all areas of the colossal buildings that constitute modern human knowledge.

The comparative rarity of bilateral cerebral spastic palsy, a disease characteristic, as you know, exclusively of childhood, with the incompleteness of the modern doctrine of spastic diseases in general, prompts me to describe a case that I had recently observed in Pozdeevskaya Children's Hospital. This case is also of interest because of the extremely peculiar phenomena of hyperkinesis in the form of athetosis, noted in it, the origin of which, despite all the efforts spent so far by many, has not been clarified far enough.

The abundance of patients of the military department, who have arrived, and especially those who have recently arrived for use and testing at the Odessa City Psychiatric Hospital, gave us a reason to collect statistical material on psychoses in the military who were in the hospital for the period from 1887 to 1906, inclusively, that is, for the last 20 years.

The patient present here has been in our clinic for about a month. During this time, the state of his health has noticeably changed for the better; nevertheless, even now there is no need to peer into his face for a long time in order to discover vivid traces of suffering on it. Indeed, everyone.

His view of the being and the course of hysterical-epilepsy, the author sets out in the next. thesis:

"Hystero-epilepsy is psycho-neurosis (Binswanger) and belongs to the group of diseases based on" degeneration "(" Entartung ") in a broad sense. “Hysterical epilepsy” differs from “pure psychoses” in that the disorders it causes “relate not only to the normal expiration of mental antecedents, but mainly to their connection with purely physical innervation antecedents”, so that it represents “painful phenomena” which is based on the disruption of the normal relationship between the antecedents of our consciousness and our corporeality. "

The article by Dr. Ya. F. Kaplan, which is the first attempt to approach a practical solution to the issue of decentralization, illuminates the old dispute between supporters and opponents of decentralization from a new point of view.

In the first (March) book of the journal there is an extremely interesting article by V. A. Muratov: "Disease of the adrenal glands with periodic psychosis."

The author investigated the second case of "intermittent" (?) Psychosis patho-anatomically and found, as in the first (1903) adrenal gland lesion.

Kocher considers the operation, stumectomy, to be a radical remedy for the treatment of Basedow's disease, since, in his opinion, an increased activity of the thyroid gland lies at the heart of the disease. The author's experience with thyroid transplantation into the spleen, which caused the symptoms of Graves' disease, confirms this opinion.

The author publishes his case as a rarity. Quoting Rosenbach, leaving open the question whether there is a case in such cases "with real psychoses or only with psychoses of exhaustion", the author resolves this question in relation to his case in favor of a real psychosis.

The author, joining Clouston'y, finds Kraepelin's term unscientific and somewhat unreasonable, thanks to which it is necessary to label the patient as dementia and then register his recovery, recognizing the term "adolescent insanity" best applicable to the group of diseases under consideration.

On December 21, 1906, by the decree of the Kazan Provincial for the Societies of Presence, the charter of the Kazan Society of People's Universities was approved.

Chronicle of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at the Imperial Kazan University, 1907, Minutes of meetings.