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Diagnostic value of fermenturia in Botkin's disease
Authors: Myshkina O. K. , Romanova I. G. , Yashchak T. V. , Afanasyeva N. D.
Published: February 2022

Among the various functional liver tests, the most important in the diagnosis of Botkin's disease is the determination of the activity of enzymes, especially aldolase, glutamic-alanine transaminase (ALT) and glutamine-aspartic transaminase (ACT). Numerous works by domestic and foreign authors have confirmed the indisputable importance of the determination of enzymemia in the diagnosis of the initial stages of Botkin's disease and its erased and anicteric forms.
Radiation and hygienic situation in Tatarstan Republik
Authors: Morozov V. G.
Published: February 2022

Caesium-137 of a global origin is found in some regions of Kazan, near the Volga and near the Kama. The greatest density of distribution does not exceed the level of 18,5 kBq/m2. The collective dose of irradiation from global precipitation equals 48 persons/Sv. The content of caesium-137, strontium-90 in milk, meat, potatoes and bread is about 1000 times smaller than the prescribed allowable levels for the present. Technogenic contamination by radium-226 is found in some areas of industrial territories in Kazan, Mendeleevsk, Chistopol, Almetyevsk and Naberezhnye Chelny. Medical radiologic investigations have a pronounced effect on the collective dose of irradiation.
Tactical and technical characteristic of individual protection means using in radiation danger
Authors: Zamirova L. B. , Sharnin G. P. , Zhilyaev G. G. , Zaripov I. N. , Kapustina N. M.
Published: February 2022

The protective material against radiation (beta-, gamma- and roentgen) obtained by means of mechanical filling of porous polimeric materials with water metal suspensions is developed. The filler content in the material and consequently, leaden equivalent quantity vary in the wide range (between 0,1 and 0,9 mm Pb) and are regulated in the process of material production. A number of protective products for the use in extreme radiation condiations, in regulated repairs at industrial works, as well as roentgen-protective means for medical scientific and industrial institutions and works is developed.
Surgery and scientific labor organization
Authors: Tsimkhes I. L.
Published: February 2022

The tasks of the scientific organization of labor, as an applied science, are to study the methods of the greatest rationalization of work in various branches and to raise labor productivity while preserving the strength and health of the workers. Thus, the object of the SLO is, on the one hand, the improvement and mechanization of production, and on the other hand, the rational use of manpower; at the same time, the SLO seeks to save the worker, to preserve his interest in his work and to reduce the total time of work. Here, as we can see, the elements of dead and living energy collide. The latter circumstance connects SLO with the scientific advances of medicine and, most of all, with physiology. Acad. V. M. Bekhterev, Prof. Drig and Phys. I. M. Burdiansky. Medical knowledge in the field of prophylaxis and pathology of occupational diseases gives the richest material for conclusions concerning the rational organization of a worker's work in order to preserve his health. But, if SLO in many issues is based on the achievements of medicine, then the reverse medical and sanitary business is almost not conducted according to the principles of rationalization of labor.
Rare case of enterocystoma
Authors: Elkin M. V.
Published: February 2022

On 30/IV 1925 a patient A. A. was admitted to the gynecological department of the Mechnikov Hospital, which I was in charge of. A., 27 years old, with complaints of rapid growth of a tumor in the abdomen and difficulty in breathing. The patient is Finnish, speaks poor Russian, which is why it was impossible to obtain a detailed anamnesis.
On the study of white blood in the postpartum period
Authors: Nikolaev A. P.
Published: February 2022

The diagnosis and prognosis are the two points which determine, on the one hand, all further behavior of the physician or medical institution toward the patient, and, on the other hand, the attitude and degree of trust of the latter toward the physician. Therefore, every diagnostic and prognostic method, especially in such a dark field of postpartum diseases, must be used, carefully checked and, if its at least relative value is established, joined to our former, conventional methods of diagnosis and prognostication. Especially it should be said about methods simple, technically accessible to each doctor and medical institution. To such methods we can rightfully refer determination of the so-called leukocyte formula or differential leukocyte count according to Schilling.
Cytological studies of secretions in female gonorrhea
Authors: Tarlo B. S.
Published: February 2022

More and more often they come to the belief that the reaction of the organism to an infectious agent is strictly specific and that each pyogenic microbe causes certain cellular elements of the tissue to fight the infection, so often the cell composition of the exudate, i.e. the predominance of certain cell forms in it, can be typical for this or that cause of inflammation. Based on this, cytological examination of the exudate may be valuable and important from a diagnostic point of view. Such specific cytological patterns could be of particular importance in relation to gonorrhea, especially female gonorrhea: it is known how unreliable the bacterioscopic examination of whites for gonococci is sometimes, the disappearance of which from the vaginal secretion often does not yet prove the actual recovery of the patient.
Medical consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station
Authors: Galiev A. S. , Spassky B. B. , Khalitov R. I.
Published: February 2022

The gravity extent of the effect of radiation factors of the accident on population is analysed. The unfavourable demographic situation on the territories contaminated by radionucleoids, death rate and sickness rate of population are practically identical with the corresponding indicators in these regions which are not contaminated by the accident discharge products. The psychical deadaptation of 50% of the population as a result of radiophobia belongs to the medical consequences of the accident. The establishing psychotherapeutic service is bound to protect from this factor offect. Particular emphasis is placed upon the rate increase of endocrinie and oncologic diseases with short latent period undoubtedly associated with the rise of the collective irradiation dose.
Essential similarity and distinction of radiation injuries and other types of extreme pathology
Authors: Badyugin I. S. , Sabitova A. I.
Published: February 2022

The agressive factor type, its dose, geometry and effect intensity determine the content change nature of adenylic acids, hormones and electrolytes in blood and tissue.
Experience in reflexology of vertebral artery syndrome
Authors: Batyasov Yu. I.
Published: February 2022

We studied the effectiveness of puncture reflexology (PR) in vertebral artery syndrome (SPA). We observed 61 patients with SPA at the age from 25 to 55 years (men 24, women 37). Previously, patients underwent outpatient and inpatient treatment in different years. In 23 patients, a form of compression-irritative SPA was revealed, in 38 patients - a reflex angiospastic syndrome. The symptomatology of SPA consisted of paroxysmal headaches, more often of the hemicranic type, cochleo-vestibular and visual disturbances, varying degrees of autonomic disorders and general neurotic syndrome. Radiographs of the cervical spine showed signs of degenerative-dystrophic changes, Kovacs subluxation, and in 2 cases of Chimerly's anomaly. Signs of hemodynamic disturbances of varying severity in the vertebrobasilar basin (changes in vascular tone, decreased blood flow) were observed on RZH in most patients. Changes in hemodynamics in most cases dominated on the side of pathology.
The role of pre-radiation topometric preparation of patients with malignant tumors of the oral cavity and oropharyngs in the prevention of radiation injuries
Authors: Gilev A. V. , Volodin G. I. , Mukhametshina F. F.
Published: February 2022

Precision clinical topometry is the most important attribute of pre-radiation preparation of patients. Its underestimation and implementation of radiation therapy on the basis of schematic planning, according to various authors, can cause the development of radiation injuries from 6-10% to 61.2% in patients with malignant tumors of the oral cavity and oropharyngeal region. This is due to the sharp gradient of the absorbed radiation dose arising from the inhomogeneity of the irradiated volume. The adequacy of the performed topometric studies is in direct proportion to the radiation damage.
Some indicators of the health status of participants in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Authors: Potapova L. I. , Rechanik P. G. , Lando E. B.
Published: February 2022

Under dispensary supervision in the polyclinic of the city clinical hospital No. 12 there are 27 people who participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. In 1993, a comprehensive medical examination of this contingent was carried out with the participation of occupational pathologists of the Republican Center for Occupational Pathology. Each case was considered individually, taking into account the state of health examined before exposure to radiation, data of the clinical picture and paraclinical research methods, specialist consultations; the final conclusion was formulated after a panel discussion. The participation of specialist doctors from the Republican Center for Occupational Pathology and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan was of an advisory nature, since regional interdepartmental expert councils created in Russia have the authority to resolve expert issues to establish a connection between existing deviations in the health status of persons with radiation exposure.
The gemato-encephalic barrier and its importance for the penetration of various substances into the central nervous system
Authors: Chernoyarova V. D.
Published: February 2022

In 1921, Stern and Gauthier found that between the blood on one side and the cerebrospinal fluid and nerve elements of the brain and spinal cord on the other, there is a barrier, which they called the gemato-encephalic barrier. In what is its essence, what is the mechanism of its work and even where it is located, is not known exactly; but the fact of its existence is undoubted, as many substances circulating in the blood, even in significant quantities, never appear in the central nervous system and in the cerebrospinal fluid. Their action does not appear in the brain, not because they have no such action, but because there is a barrier to their penetration into the brain tissue, and under normal conditions they are retained at the border between the blood and the cerebral medium.
On the origin of pneumopleuritis. Meerson (Vopr. Tub., 1927, No. 11)
Authors: Oyfebach M.
Published: February 2022

As is known, Graetz explains the development of pleural effusions during an artificial pleural thorax by the transition of the inflammatory process from tbc foci to the nearby pleura, due to compression of the lung by air, and the exudate is formed more often immediately after the first blows. In other cases liquid appears after 4-8 months, being of transudate character. Consequently, the etiology of pleurisy is not the same.
Advances in radiotherapy. Bayet (from Ber. ü. d. ges. Gyn., Bd. XII)
Authors: Timofeev A.
Published: February 2022

A significant advance in this area is the injection of radium into the tumor using needles. The prerequisite for this therapy is the exact definition of the tumor borders, which in uterine and parametric cancers is achieved by transosection; this creates a kind of special kind of surgery, which aims to create access for the application of radium. Since the duration of cell division in cancer is up to 15-20 days, it is necessary to lengthen the radium application time considerably.
To the etiology of pernicious anemia. Laurinovicius (Klin. Med., 1927, No. 18)
Authors: Sherman S.
Published: February 2022

Recalling that the pathogenesis of perniciosal anemia has not yet been elucidated, the author dwells on the importance of intestinal intoxications on the basis of intestinal constrictions for the appearance of this disease. After reviewing the relevant literature, particularly the literature that anaemia perniciosa has abnormal flora in the small intestines, the author cites his own case of malignant anemia in combination with intestinal constriction, where the same flora was found in the contents of the small and large intestines with a preponderance of b. coli.
Local autohemotherapy according to Läwen's method for inflammations of sweat glands. Prof. O. Wiedhorch (Zentr. f. Chir., 1927, No. 45)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

The author cites four cases of sweat-gland abscesses successfully treated by injecting patients' own blood into the tissue surrounding the abscess.
Coli bacillary serum in peritonitis. Prof. Katzenstein (Zentr. f. Chir., 1927, no. 24)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

The author suggests using antitoxic coli bacillary serum in all late surgeries for spilt peritonitis, where E. coli is in the pus.
Postoperative and postpartum thrombosis and embolism. Jaschke and Schumacher (Arch. f. Gyn., Bd. 129, H. 3)
Authors: Timofeev A.
Published: February 2022

When discussing the etiology of postoperative and postpartum thrombosis, the authors note a number of conditions favorable to their occurrence. As a necessary condition is the slowing of blood flow, one of the most frequent causes of which is cardiac muscle insufficiency. To what extent vascular wall changes are necessary in this case remains unclear.
To the teaching of rickets. Pfaundler (Münch. med. Woch., 1927, nos. 16-17), Vollmer (Deut. med. Woch., 1927, no. 39), Gyorgy (Klin. Woch., 1927, no. 13), Folkenlieim (D. m. W., 1927, no. 37), Hottinger and Stärlinger (D. m. W., 1927, no. 37)
Authors: Marcuse S.
Published: February 2022

Pfaundler provides a guiding review of the major advances in the study of rickets. Most interesting are the advances in resolving the question of the antirachitis factor. Huldschinsky showed that illumination with ultraviolet rays cured rickets. Hess and Steenbock proved on rats with experimentally induced rickets that irradiation of animal food is sufficient to cure the latter if it contains fat or at least only the unsaponifiable part of it - cholesterol (fats, milk, flour, animal skin, etc.).
To the clinical picture of whooping cough. M.O. Brodsky (Vest. Sovr. Med., 1927, No. 22)
Authors: Leizerovskaya M.
Published: February 2022

According to observations of M.O. Brodsky in early infancy cough in whooping cough often proceeds without whistling and does not end in vomiting, coughing thrusts follow each other without interruption and lead to redness and even turning blue of the face, convulsive movements and eruption of urine and feces. Cyanosis reaches a very high degree, suffocation becomes threatening and may lead to death, especially if the disease is complicated by capillary bronchitis or pneumonia.
To a technique of operative treatment of brain tumors. L. Pussep (Ref. Journ. de chir., 1927, no. 2)
Authors: Shidlovsky P.
Published: February 2022

Based on his own 25-year experience and observations of 500 brain tumors, of which 420 were operated on, the author recommends operating on patients with these tumors in the lateral position, which prevents loss of cerebrospinal fluid; in the dorsal position he operates only on temporal tumors, and he completely abandoned the sitting position. He attaches great importance to the temperature of the operating room, preferring to operate at 18-20.
Scientific and methodological substantiation of the forms and methods of field work of heads of health care of the republic (region, territory)
Authors: Vakhitov S. M.
Published: February 2022

By outreach work, we mean the activities of workers in the health care management system of the republic (region, region) associated with travel to the districts and due to the need to solve certain managerial problems and tasks. At the same time, several people, as a rule, participate in meetings from the side of regional health care institutions - the chief physician of the Central Regional Hospital, his deputies, and various specialists.
On the history of the development of radiology in the Republic of Tatarstan
Authors: Mikhailov M. K.
Published: February 2022

None of the periods of the entire previous history was as bright and diverse in the manifestation of human genius as the 19th century - the century of science and technology. SP Botkin wrote: "... what a movement forward was then, what an irrepressible current swept the whole society, and at the same time what a thirst for knowledge awoke in it." Society "wanted to learn, to know." The greatest discoveries of the second half of the 19th century, made with seemingly ingenious simplicity or "by accident", acquire true value today.
Sachs'a-Georgi reaction in a county laboratory setting. Malinovsky (Ven. and Derm., 1927, no. 12)
Authors: Weinstein A.
Published: February 2022

Malinovsky used the Sachs'a-Georgi reaction for syphilis serodiagnosis in a county vendispensary and conducted 703 tests, working with a foreign antigen and a homemade agglutinoscope. In the beginning of the article the author is extremely delighted with this reaction and believes that it can occupy an independent position in syphilis serodiagnostics, but in the end he admits that this reaction also requires some technical equipment and serological experience.
Morphological changes in blood in gonorrhea under the influence of immunotherapy. Maryasin and Pechersky (Ven. and Derm., 1927, No. 12)
Authors: Yasnitsky N.
Published: February 2022

The therapeutic value of various immunotherapeutic preparations (gonovaccine, milk, own blood), which is now universally recognized, does not exclude, however, the possibility of disagreement on the issue of their dosage and the duration of the intervals between individual injections. In view of the great complexity and difficulty in applying the existing laboratory methods of determining the biphasic reaction of the body (opsonic index) in wide practice, the authors are trying to find a sub-method in the changes from the blood.
Metrology of acute radiation reaction in patients with laryngeal cancer
Authors: Gileva T. G. , Lukin A. V. , Nyushkin A. A. , Agachev A. R.
Published: February 2022

Acute radiation reactions in patients with malignant neoplasms of the larynx are a constant factor accompanying radiation therapy. The intensity and speed of their manifestation are ambiguous and depend on the stage of the malignant process.
On the Distribution of Contraceptives in the Population
Authors: Bykov S. G.
Published: February 2022

The modern medical community attaches great importance to contraception. The reasons for this are: 1) the desire to eliminate the wave of abortion, 2) the desire to enable women to decide the question of maternity themselves, 3) to teach contraception where eugenic and social indications prompt it, etc. At the first meeting of maternity protection workers, the following statement was made: the duty of motherhood, although still considered as a high duty, is not compulsory for women, even if this would be to the disadvantage of the state (Kaplun). Having taken this view, we must take a closer look at existing contraceptives, study them, and recommend those that are most advisable and harmless.
To the technique of studying the cerebral arterial system
Authors: Bik V. I.
Published: February 2022

In recent years the Kazan Anatomical Institute has suffered because of the lack of sufficient cadaveric material. For example, in the current academic year only 20 entire adult corpses were delivered to the Institute, which were barely enough for practical classes with students, and the teaching staff could not get a single corpse for research work. This shortage forces us, the staff of the Institute, to engage in journeys to sections of the departments of forensic medicine and pathological anatomy in order to obtain there organs: either intestines, or kidneys, or other parts necessary for work or for the museum. Of course, we try to make 100% use of the material we obtain in this way, just as we do with children's cadavers.
Regarding desmoid tumors of the anterior abdominal wall
Authors: Saglova A. I.
Published: February 2022

According to Snger, desmoid tumors of the anterior abdominal wall should be understood as all tumors of the connective tissue type originating from the muscular-aponeurotic layer of the abdominal wall, without distinguishing their histological structure and clinical properties. There is an extensive material on this subject in the foreign literature, especially the work of Pfeiffer, covering 400 cases, and Klot, covering 500 cases of this kind of tumors, deserve attention. Among Russian authors, the most extensive statistics on desmoid tumors was given by Prof. G.F. Pisemsky, who collected 550 cases of desmoid tumors from foreign and Russian literature, including his own 9. Comparative rarity of this disease and scarcity of Russian literature on the subject allow me to report cases of desmoid of anterior abdominal wall, observed in Kazan Obstetrical Gynecological Clinic from 1903 to 1927 and operated on by Prof. V.S.Gruzdev.
Schramm's phenomenon as an early sign of spinal cord lesions
Authors: Galperstein Ya. .E.
Published: February 2022

The diagnosis of bladder and urinary disorders due to diseases of the nervous system is not difficult in cases with clearly defined symptoms of nervous system disorders. In the initial stages of spinal cord disease, however, these symptoms may be so obscure that when examined, especially by a layman, they may go unrecognized. In these cases, any sign that may indicate the presence of nervous system suffering and thereby establish the cause of bladder disease and urinary disorders is of great diagnostic value.
Calcium chloride and ultraviolet rays in the treatment of articular tbc. Clavelin and Sicard (Presse méd., 1928, No. 15)
Authors: Kramov N.
Published: February 2022

The authors, pointing out that calcium chloride was first proposed for the treatment of articular rheumatism by the Russian author (Rosen), report 28 cases of articular tbc treated with calcium chloride and ultraviolet rays with good results: patients had weight gain up to 9 kg, improvement of general condition, reduction of fistula suppuration and their closure.
On the pharmacology of ethyl ether autooxidation products. Y. Kh. Nolle (Jour. Exp. Biol. & Med., vol. VIII, No. 20)
Authors: Blumstein Z.
Published: February 2022

Based on the fact of self-oxidation of ethyl ether, the products of which are, acetic aldehyde and hydrogen peroxide, ethyl, dioxyethyl and diethylidene, and inevitably associated with this phenomenon rejection of ether pro narcosi, Ya.Kh. Nolle set a series of experiments on isolated: hearts of cold and warm blooded animals in order to clarify the toxicity of these products and the order of their formation.
Determination of corneal sensitivity. Соmberg (Zeitchr. f. A., Bd. 64, H. 3)
Authors: Volzhensky E.
Published: February 2022

To test corneal sensitivity, Prof. Sommerg recommends the following procedure: make the patient look slightly upwards with the eyes closed and simultaneously palpate the corneas through the closed eyelids with the tips of the index fingers or little fingers, applying as much equal pressure as possible. If one of the corneas appears to be more sensitive, sliding the finger along the convexity of the eyelid can immediately approximate the location of this sensitivity.
Tabic atrophy of the optic nerve. Prof. S. Behr (Zeitchr. f. Aug., B. 60, H. 6)
Authors: Volzhensky E.
Published: February 2022

Based on anatomical studies, the author concludes that in tabial optic atrophy, spirochaete endotoxins initially cause disruption of not only marginal but also parenchymatous glia bundles: a secondary consequence is a nutritional disorder of the underlying nerve fibers, which through this undergo degeneration to their final decay.
Pregnancy and childbirth with hypertension
Authors: Kozin G. A.
Published: February 2022

We studied the course of pregnancy and childbirth in 211 women with hypertension who were under our supervision in 1959-1967. Pregnancy was complicated by late toxicosis in 105 women: at 1 st. hypertension in 74, at II st. - in 30 and at III st. - in 1. Dropsy of pregnant women was in 10 women, nephropathy - in 89, preeclampsia - in 3 and eclampsia - in 3. Nephropathy was 1.7 times more common in women with stage II hypertension than in women with stage I. The difference was statistically significant (P0.01).
About methods of late-term pregnancy termination used abroad
Authors: Binemson S. V.
Published: February 2022

In the previous article, we presented the results of an analysis of 10,569 late-term abortions carried out mostly during the period from 1923 to 1963 by various methods: trans-renal infusion, metreiriz, vaginal caesarean section and small caesarean section. With each of these methods, there were certain complications, as well as maternal mortality. Thus, none of the methods used is completely harmless and safe. Therefore, it is necessary to strictly take into account the indications and contraindications to each method separately.
Prof. K. Schleyer. Diseases of the Kidneys. Gosizdat, 1928, price. 75 k., and "Pract. Med." 1927, price unspecified
Authors: Cheboksarov M.
Published: February 2022

The book is written by a great connoisseur of renal pathology. Being himself one of the founders of the modern doctrine of functional diagnostics of the kidneys - recalling his exceptional value of the study of renal function in experimental nephritis - Professor S., naturally, in his book, focuses on the importance for the doctor of studying the function of the diseased organ, without touching the pathological and anatomical side of the issue and deliberately not stopping on controversial theoretical problems. The purpose of the book is purely practical, to give a clear and concise statement of the current state of the teachings on renal diseases and to formulate precisely, concretely the necessary and at the same time only reliable therapeutic measures.
Results of medical radiation research, edited by von Holfelder, Holthusen, Jüngling and Martins. Volume III 791 стр. 613 fig. Leipzig, 1928. Price 68 m.
Authors: Gasul R. Ya.
Published: February 2022

Following the example of the first two volumes, which I abstracted in detail in 1926 and 27, the present volume III also contains a large number (11) of detailed articles on radiodiagnostics and 4 articles on biology and therapy, including one on diathermy. Considering the urgent need to give a complete review of the technique of radiography of the nasal and ear appendages in the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases and tumors of the nose, upper jaw and ear, the editors placed in the first chapter 2 articles by Prof. Stetuerer on radiographic diagnostics of the nasal and ear appendages. Already in 1896, this author tried to guide in the appendicular nasal cavities by roentgen, but only 10 years later prominent rhinologists (Goldmann, Kilian and others) became interested in this technique. Since then, the roentgenogram became an indispensable part of the patient's examination for the rhinologist. There are known cases when endonasal examination was inconclusive and the X-ray revealed a picture of a tumor, abscess, or fracture, which were then confirmed by surgery.
X All-Union Congress of Therapists
Authors: Predtechensky A. M.
Published: February 2022

The 10th All-Union Congress of Therapists, which was held in Leningrad from June 15 to 20 this year, attracted a great number of participants, nearly 1400, 800 of whom came from various places of the Union. On the eve of the opening of the Congress a friendly meeting of all its participants took place in the building of the Academic Philharmonic with a concert section with the participation of the symphonic orchestra of the Philharmonic, opera and ballet dancers, etc.
On chordomas. Elenevsky and Melnikov (Orth. and Traum., 1928, Vol. 5-6)
Authors: Kiptenko N.
Published: February 2022

This rare tumor, described by Elenevsky and Melnikov, has been observed only 84 times so far: 45 times was a cranial chordoma on Blumenbachii clivus, 37 times - caudal, and 2 times - vertebral. Cranial chordomas are sometimes benign tumors about the size of a walnut, sitting in the clivus on an exostosis and growing into the dura mater to pons Varolii; sometimes malignant, the latter are large and destructive in size, they urinate on the bone, penetrate into the clivus, penetrate into the throat, grow into the brain appendage and lead to death after 1-5 years.
On the unification of the Wassermann reaction. Breen and Solun (Vest. Micr., VI, Vol. 3)
Authors: Weinstein A.
Published: February 2022

Working with several series of "Moscow" antigens from the Central Bacteriological Institute, Breen and Solun found that these antigens, with their strongly pronounced anti-complementary properties, can give false delays, on the one hand, because not all tested sera neutralize this anti-complementary property. not all tested sera neutralize this anticomplement property of the antigens and, on the other hand, can also produce frequent negative results because the main experience when the tested serum neutralizes the anticomplement properties of the antigen occurs in an excess of complement.
Ozena and the endocrine glands. Galpern and Moszkiewicz (Journal of Ear, Nose, and Throat, 1927, No. 7-8)
Authors: Venetsianova M.
Published: February 2022

Galpern and Moszkiewicz, considering ozena a disease associated with abnormal function of the endocrine glands and having no other methods to determine certain hormones in the blood, resorted to the method of anthropometry. They examined 16 patients with ozena.
Handbook of Physical Therapies. T. I. Compiled by the staff of the State Leningrad. Physiotherapy. Institute, ed. by prof. S.A. Brushtein. 1928. 652 pp. Price: 12 p. 50 k. (revised)
Authors: Sukhov A. A.
Published: February 2022

Nowadays, physiotherapy is becoming, as Prof. Brushtein correctly says, the center of therapy for all specialties of medicine; it is a common therapy for all of them. Therefore, it is imperative that in our medical literature there should appear a complete, covering all specialties of medicine, a desk reference book for physicians on physiotherapy, understanding the latter in the broadest sense of the word. Such a plan, with full coverage of general and private physiotherapy, was outlined by Prof. Brushtein and his seven co-authors.
V. M. Curzon. Maternity and Infancy Protection in the USSR. 2nd ed. Samara. 1928. 176 pp.
Authors: Lepsky N.
Published: February 2022

Regarding the first edition of Dr. Curzon's book, we have already drawn the attention of readers ("K. M. J.", 1927, No. 6-7) to the merits of this manual. In the 2nd edition almost all the chapters have been enriched with new data, in particular the section describing the organization of institutions for) children, which was too brief in the 1st edition, has been somewhat expanded.
On the treatment of septic endocarditis with large doses of polyvalent anti-streptococcal serum
Authors: Prozorovsky B. M.
Published: February 2022

In the present report, we will dwell on the description of several cases of septic heart lesions, in which we used polyvalent anti-streptococcal serum in high doses, and share observations on its action.If this serum has been successfully used and is used by many people for rye, postpartum fever and some other septic lesions, in endocarditis it is used very rarely, and the available literature data on this subject speak mostly not in favor of such treatment.
Sputum cytology and its diagnostic value
Authors: Kramov N. A.
Published: February 2022

Biermer's classification of sputum based on its visible macroscopic properties, established back in the 60s, is still the basis of the relevant diagnostic departments. The bacteriological era of the last decades of the 19th century, having put the study of pathogens at the forefront in the study of sputum, has left aside the issue of cytology and chemical properties of the constituent elements of sputum. Whereas even for the district hospital microscopic examination of urine in suspected kidney disease is considered mandatory, and morphological examination of blood in inflammatory diseases is becoming a common laboratory method, cytological examination of sputum even in the clinical setting is still not performed. The reason for this may be seen in the fact that the degenerated form elements of sputum are both more difficult to stain and are distributed unevenly in the smear due to the admixture of large amounts of mucus and albumin; this is not the case with urine and effusions, where the distribution of elements is more even, their degeneration less pronounced, and the above impurities are absent.
Erythrocyte sedimentation reaction (ESR) in acute infections
Authors: Volter B. A. , Alexandrov K. G.
Published: February 2022

Described by R. Fahrаеus and well developed recently RPE does not cease to attract the attention of clinicians as one of the subtle biological reactions. Without going into the history of this reaction, which has been described more than once, we note that its biological basis is still largely unclear to us. Despite the work of a number of researchers, among whom there are world-famous names such as Abderhalden, Michaelis, Rona, Brker, etc., we still do not have a generally recognized theory explaining all aspects of the phenomenon in question. The most recognized is the colloidal-chemical theory, according to which the acceleration of RPE depends on the increase of positively charged globulins in blood plasma, and the deceleration depends on the increase of negatively charged albumin.
Several cases of treatment of pernicious anemia with liver
Authors: Davydov P. D.
Published: February 2022

The etiology of malignant anemia is still a mystery. For a long time the disease has been attributed to the presence of the intestinal worm (bothriocephalus latus); observations show, however, that many people carry this worm in their small intestines, while very few people develop pernicious anemia.
Observations on vaccine therapy and out-vaccine therapy for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis
Authors: Lopatin G. M.
Published: February 2022

There is no well-collected material on the incidence of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis among children in the USSR. The most comprehensive monograph by Breitman is more than 20 years old. Judging by anecdotal evidence and the rather large number of papers on the subject, cases of the disease are widespread and frequent, and in recent years small epidemic outbreaks and sporadic cases have been occurring more and more frequently. Over a period of 30 years, according to Prof. Kisel, 80 cases of cerebrospinal meningitis have occurred in the former Olginsky Children's Hospital in Moscow. The clinic of infants of the 2nd M. G. W. (Frishman) counts 35 cases in a shorter period. Our material indicates a higher incidence of the disease in children specifically in recent years, with infants being affected more frequently.
Local subcutaneous anesthesia in visceral pain. Roch and Frommel (Presse med., 1927, No. 25)
Authors: Znamensky M.
Published: February 2022

On the one hand, based on the observations of Danielopolu, who achieved the cessation of pain in chest pains by injecting novocaine into the 2nd and 3rd intercostal nerves on the left side, on the other hand, on the reports of Lemair, who successfully used subcutaneous novocaine injections for visceral pains by injecting a % solution of it into the proximal area of these pains, the authors applied this method in 26 cases of various internal organ diseases accompanied by pains.
Improvement of spinal anesthesia. Hilarowicz and Szajna (Zentr. f. Chir., 1928, No. 31)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

Based on experimental and clinical observations, the authors recommend adding potassium chloride to the novocaine solution to combat the drop in blood pressure and respiratory center paralysis.
Treatment of tetanus. Mandl (Bruns Beitr. zur klin. Chir., Bd. CXXXVIII, Hft. 4)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

Based on personal clinical observations and literature review, the author concludes that in all cases of tetanus where lumbar or sacral anesthesia was applied, there was destruction of the numbness of the muscles of the lower extremities as well as the abdominal and spinal muscles for several hours, and the patients felt considerable relief.
Removal of the lower extremity with half of the pelvis (amputatio interileo-abdominalis)
Authors: Panshin I. N.
Published: February 2022

For the first time Billroth performed this enormous operation in terms of the size of the injury inflicted in 1889; his patient died, and the case remained undescribed. Then Jaboulay operated on two patients who died in the first days after the operation, and was the first to make a report in the literature on this subject. The first surgeon to perform this operation, for sarcoma of the hip, with a happy immediate outcome, was Girard, whose patient lived six months and died of metastasis in the lungs.
On the anatomico-topographic position and histological structure of the appendix in human embryos
Authors: Borman V. L. , Krolevets P.  M.
Published: February 2022

The development of the appendix, its anatomical position, histological structure, and its importance in the clinic is still a burning issue, which is why we decided to publish our modest studies in this direction, concentrating exclusively on the topography and microscopic structure of the appendix in human embryos. Before proceeding to the statement of the factual data obtained by us, we will prefer a brief literature review, and we consider it necessary to say in advance that the latter is far from being exhaustive due to the incompleteness of our special library.
New evidence on the issue of vital blood lavage
Authors: Chepov P. M.
Published: February 2022

The question of the possibility of life-long blood washing, for the first time put forward by Professor I.P. Mikhailovsky in 1914, was actually proved by him in 1924-25 by experiments on dogs poisoned by supralethal doses of morphine injected directly into the blood. At the same time it was found that washing the blood of these animals while alive saved them, while the control dogs, i.e. left to themselves after poisoning with morphine, all died of acute intoxication. These experiments raised a number of very important questions, the experimental elucidation of which was the urgent task of the proposed method, and without a satisfactory solution of which the use of the latter for the purposes of practical medicine was not possible.
On aortic and pulmonary artery lesions by acute endoarteritis in connection with ductus arteriosi necrosis
Authors: Vasiliev I. P.
Published: February 2022

In all known cases there was a lesion of the cardiac valve apparatus, most often of the aortic valves, which gave rise to infection of the aortic intima or pulmonary artery and appearance of wartlike exrescences on it similar to wart-like endocarditis. At the same time, in these cases the ductus arteriosus was also affected by the verrucosis process. Only in Roth's case the ulcerative wart-like process developed at the site of the unexpanded ductus arteriosus entering the pulmonary artery with complete integrity of the heart valves.
Experience with parenteral sulfur therapy of rheumatic arthritis
Authors: Yakhnich I. M.
Published: February 2022

So far it is necessary to admit that the most rational ways of treatment effective for various joint diseases, without distinguishing their etiology and pathogenesis, are methods of physical therapy and first of all treatment at resorts with sulfur baths and muds containing sulfur compounds. It is clear that such treatments can be available for relatively small number of patients and can be carried out only in certain places and at certain times of the year, so that in everyday practice in the vast majority of our Union they are not available in ordinary medical institutions. In the best cases these methods of treatment are replaced by cakes of imported mud or by dry-air and other thermal procedures. In view of the above, the attempt of the French authors to introduce the treatment of joint rheumatic diseases by parenteral administration of sulfur seems to be highly interesting from the practical point of view.
Sweating disorder in decompensated heart disease E. Zak (Zeit. für Kreislaufforschung, 1928, No. 11)
Authors: Raisky S. M.
Published: February 2022

Sweating disorder is determined by placing the palm surface of the terminal phalanx of the patient's finger on a specially prepared lapis-treated piece of paper. In healthy people or in persons with complete cardiac compensation, after a while after contact of the finger with the paper, black specks of silver chloride, formed due to the connection of silver of the paper with sweat chlorides, remain on the latter.
Treatment of cold abscesses by injection of chloroform-iodine solution. J. Marian (Zentr. f. Chir., 1928, No. 23)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

During 3 years the author successfully used the following mixture for treatment of cold abscesses: metal iodine 6.0, guaiacol-10.0, chloroform-60.0, almond oil-40.0. The mixture is sterilized and after emptying pus from the abscess is injected into the latter.
On injuries with aniline pencil. Milch (Ann. of surgery, 1927)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

The author cites a case of an ink pencil injury to the index finger of the left hand of a 27-year-old clerical worker. The finger swelled up, resulting in fever and headache. After cutting out the injured area with removal of the broken tip of the pencil, the wound became necrotic, cleared within 6 weeks, and only healed after 8 weeks.
Professor V. L. Bogolyubov, as a public figure
Authors: Epstein T. D.
Published: February 2022

The social significance of scientific and pedagogical activity derives from the very essence of this highly differentiated function in contemporary society. The social and cultural progress of mankind is inconceivable without scientific research and implies at the same time the constant, systematic training and education under the guidance of our scientists of new generations of qualified specialists and figures of science in a wide variety of areas of modern life. That is why our country so appreciates the work of its scientists; that is why anniversaries in the lives of our scientists and teachers, marking a long streak of legendary hard and fruitful work, become celebrations not only of the narrow circle of their students and figures of the known field of knowledge, but grow into major social events that attract and thrill all who care about the fate of science and social progress.
Appendicitis and gastric acidity
Authors: Krolevets P. M.
Published: February 2022

Our material is very modest, covering only 25 cases of appendicitis. We excluded patients with dubious anamnesis and objective examination data from the category of patients under study, and gastric juice was not studied in them. Besides, we tried to select patients with similar symptoms and clinical manifestations of the disease as much as possible, so that it would be easier and more correct to orient in the results of the study.
On pathological and anatomical changes in free skin transplants to other organs and tissues
Authors: Tsimkhes I. L.
Published: February 2022

In surgical practice, attempts to replace mucous or serous membranes with skin have been known for a long time. There are also known cases of using skin instead of the usual use of fascia. So, O. Loewe (1913) in 9 patients with inguinal hernias, retroflexio uteri and other diseases instead of fascia inserted pieces of skin of different length after removal of its surface epithelial layer. In 1927, Prof. Bogolyubov applied free skin grafting in the form of flagellum in 17 cases of gastropexia, bowel obstruction, anus praeternaturalis and for narrowing the femoral or inguinal canal, for hernias; in 4 cases Prof. Bogolyubov used skin flagellum for narrowing the rectal opening with prolapsed rectum. In all operated cases the transplanted tourniquets were implanted along with complete healing of the wound.
On the restoration of the auricle in toto
Authors: Gusynin V. A.
Published: February 2022

The complete restoration of the auricle belongs to the most difficult tasks of plastic surgery. In daily surgical practice, we usually have to deal with the replacement of partial defects of the auricle of greater or lesser magnitude, as well as with the correction of various irregularities in the shape and position of the outer ear.
New modification of foot root arthrodesis
Authors: Friedland M. O.
Published: February 2022

Modern literature teaches us that with extra-articular methods of surgery, graft resorption easily occurs, and primarily at the level of joint fissures, which, in the absence of ankylotic joints within the joints themselves, entails the recurrence of the dangling foot. This failure is easy to understand if we remember clinical and experimental observations showing that in the presence of pseudarthrosis of one of the paired limb bones (tibia or forearm), spontaneous pseudarthrosis of another, whole bone easily occurs at the same level (Bier et al. Biesalski, Mller, Kopylov), and that a bone graft transplanted to fix a tuberculous joint (in particular, the spine) subsequently, after healing of the lesion and disappearance of muscle stiffness, segments just at the level of the joint gap (Biesalski, Mller, Kopylov).
Malignant tumors of the thyroid gland and their relation to goiter in man and animals. Wegelin (Cancer Review, 1928, No. 7)
Authors: Vylegzhanin N.
Published: February 2022

In both humans and animals, a close affinity between endemic goiter and malignant thyroid tumors has been definitely established. Here almost invariably malignant changes originate from benign tissue proliferations. Thus, Wegelin points out that, for example, in Berlin, which is almost free of goiter disease, malignant thyroid tumors account for no more than 0.09% of the sectional material, whereas in Bern, which is the area where endemic goiter reaches its maximum in Europe, the same tumors account for 1.04%.
On the treatment of an ingrown nail. Prof. K. Keschke (Zentr. f. Chir., 1928, No. 39)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

The author recommends a wedge-shaped excision with removal of the nail base to treat an ingrown nail. To speed up the treatment, he advises filling the resulting tissue defect with a Thiersch skin graft.
Permanent fistula of the stomach. Stahnke (Zentr. f. Chir, 1928, No. 26)
Authors: Tsimkhes I.
Published: February 2022

The author describes a method of forming a fistulous gastric canal from a skin flap on a pedicle. Two fingers below the left subcostal area, in transverse direction, a skin flap is cut out with its base facing laterally.
Prophylactic use of anti-scarlatino serum. René, Martin and Laffaile (Soc. de Peel., 1928, No. 7)
Authors: Tarnopolsky I.
Published: February 2022

The authors report the results of a Dick's anti-scarlatino serum prepared at the Pasteur Institute. During one epidemic which occurred in July, 1927, 27 of the 85 prisoners of 12-18 years of age tested positive, and the antiscarlatina serum was given immediately to these persons (20 c.c. to persons older than 14 years and 10 c.c. to the younger ones); within 3 weeks there was no illness, but then again 2 of those who tested positive had contracted scarlatina.