Vol 5, No 11 (1891)

In No. 9 of the obstetric and gynecological journal for September 1887, I published 19 cases of supravaginal hysteromiomotomies; from that time to January 1891, I performed 7 more hysteromiomotomies, given below.

When a new instrument is proposed for introduction into practice, it is necessary that the new model should present certain advantages over the old ones; in General, a good instrument should not only satisfy its intended purpose, but also should not have any side disadvantages.

Domna Kovaleva, cr. Dukhovshchinskiy u., Smolensk province, 39 years old, was admitted on August 25, 1891, complaining of severe pain in the abdomen, especially at the bottom, constant nausea and vomiting, increasing general weakness, dizziness, difficulty urinating.

34 members were present: Vasten, Hermonius, Gorayskiy, Danilovich, Dobradin, Zheltukhin, Zabolotskiy, Zmigrodskiy, Lapin, Lichkus, Lopatinskiy, Massen, Misevich, Neishtube, Ott, Piotrovich, Polotebnov, Popov, Porshnyakov, Savchenko, Salmanov, Slavyanskiy, Smolenskiy, Stelmakhovich, Stravinskiy, Ulrikh, A. Fisher, Frank, Chernevskiy, Chernyshev, Shverdlov, Shtol, Shtolts, Yanpolskiy and 19 guests.

Meeting on January 8th. At the suggestion of Dr. P.I. Dobrynin, prof. G.E. Rein, and his comrade, senior doctor of the Ryazan regional hospital, D.S. Shchetkin. Prof. G.E. Rein turned to the section with a speech, in which he thanked for the honorary election. I read the report of Dr. A. I. Zamshin (St. Petersburg). "Bacteriological and experimental research on antiseptic during childbirth and on self-infection."