Vol XVIII, No 2 (1911)
Articles
Little-described forms of acutely developed dementia after trauma
Abstract
Daily clinical experience shows that gross tremors of the body and, in particular, bruises of the head, can be accompanied by a variety of mental disorders, ranging from very elementary changes in memory, mood, etc., and ending with the most complex mental illnesses with a complete change in intelligence, will, mood , character and personality in general in all its phases.
The modern epidemic of school suicides in Russia
Abstract
Suicide is a profoundly abnormal phenomenon. That is why every case of him involuntarily attracts general attention even in our time, when a person's life has fallen so low in value. But if what has just been said is true in relation to suicide in general, all the more it matters when it comes to children.
About hallucinations and pseudo-hallucinations
Abstract
Hallucinations and pseudo-hallucinations represent the most interesting disorders in the mentally ill; they are counted among the elementary deceptions of the senses. In my opinion, such a reckoning of them as deceptions of feelings is completely wrong, they must be attributed to deceptions of the mind, which I hope to prove further, pointing out that feelings are not deceived in them, and also that he is not at all elementary, but represent the result complex mental processes.
Coordination-motor function of the cerebellum
Abstract
When choosing dogs, one has to pay attention mainly to the age of the dog. Young and old dogs are not suitable for experiments on the cerebellum. Young ones are not suitable because their bones are not sufficiently compacted; they are porous, riddled with bony sinuses overflowing with blood, and are therefore bleeding.
Military psychiatric affairs in the Austro-Hungarian, German and French armies
Abstract
With regard to alcoholism in the German army, on this issue, one can point to the rather detailed work of Dr. Stier. Having prefaced the essay on the influence of alcohol on a person, the author proceeds to the question of the meaning of this influence for the army in peacetime and wartime.
O. Maas. On the question of Recklingausen'a disease. Beitrag zur Kentniss der Recklinghausenschen Krankheit. Monatschr. für Psychiatrie u. Neurol., Bd. XXVIII (1910 г.)
Abstract
The author gives a medical history and the results of a detailed microscopic examination of a case in which he was diagnosed with multiple tumors of the nervous system during his lifetime. Based on post mortem research, which revealed the existence of numerous tumors of the membranes of the spinal cord and brain, peripheral nerves and roots, the author views this case as a rare form of Recklingausen’s disease, in which there are no skin tumors that occur in almost all cases of this disease.
M. Allen Starr. Deafness caused by brain damage. Deafuesse due to lesion in the brain. Journ. of Nerv. and Ment. Diseases, 1910, № 7.
Abstract
Cases of deafness caused by damage to the brain are not common; the reason for this may be either cortical foci - more or less extensive destruction of the temporal lobes, or the defeat of pontis Varolii. The case described by the author belongs to the second group.
W. G. Spiller. Fridreich's disease. Fridreich’s ataxia. — Journ. of Nervous and Ment. Diseases, 1910, № 7
Abstract
The author describes 2 cases of Fridreich’s disease (one of them with autopsy); both of them represent the peculiarity that, along with the typical symptoms of this disease, they had rather pronounced atrophy of the muscles of the arms and legs, and atrophic phenomena prevailed in the peripheral parts of the upper and lower extremities
G. Markelov. To the pathogenesis and therapy of myasthenia. - Therapeutic Review, December 1910.
Abstract
The author points out that a great service to the clinic in the study of the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis was rendered by the acquaintance with the glandular system, with internal secretion, which has significantly advanced in recent years.
G. Clérambault. Materials on the issue of the abuse of ether. Notes sur l’éthérisme.—Archives de Neurologie, 1910, p. 268, 315 и 397.
Abstract
In this paper, Clérambault cites 14 personal observations of acute and chronic ether poisoning. 4 of his patients are men, the rest are women; almost all of them are relatively young. In almost all cases, various signs of mental degeneration could be ascertained.
N. Willige. Observations on the action of Ehrlich-Hata on neurological and psychiatric material. Uber Erfahrung mit Ehrlich-Hata 606 an psychiatrisch-neurologischen Material.—Münch. med. Wochensch. 1910, № 46
Abstract
Injections of the drug "606" were made in 35 patients; 5 had repeated injections; 21 of them suffered from progression paralysis, 3 — taboparalyse, 5 — lues cerebri, 3 — tabes dorsalis, 1 — lues spinalis, and, finally, in 2 cases the diagnosis could not be established with certainty.
Physiotherapy. L. Blum. Treatment of sciatic nerve inflammation with epidural injections. Uber die Behandlung der Ischias mit epiduralen Injectionen.—Münch. med. Wochensch. 1910
Abstract
The epidural injection technique was proposed almost simultaneously by Sicard and Chatelin. The author used epidural injections in the treatment of chronic ischias using first 1% cocaine solution or 4% —stovain’a, and subsequently with physiological sodium chloride solution.
Report on the activities of the Society of neuropathologists and psychiatrists at the Imperial Kazan University for 1910
Abstract
The past year is the 19th year of the Society's life. By arranging scientific meetings and publishing a special journal "Neurological Bulletin", the Society contributed to the development of questions on anatomy, microscopic anatomy, nervous physiology, psychology, neuropathology and psychiatry with the pathological anatomy of the toxicity of nervous and mental and forensic disorders,
Minutes of the annual meeting of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at the Imperial Kazan University on January 26, 1911.
Abstract
Chaired by prof. L.O. Darkshevich under the secretary of Dr. V. K. Voroshilov. Attended by: prof. Osipov, Chistovich, doctor Pervushin, favorsky, Mikhailov, Nikolaevsky, Protopopov, N. A. Donskov, V. A. Donskov, Bolberg, Lopatin, Tsypkin, Golovin, Chirkovsky, Emdin, Arkhangelskaya, Semileyskaya, Skuridin, Kushelevsk students.