Vol XX, No 3 (1913)
Articles
On the issue of surgical treatment of cortical epilepsy (traumatic and non-traumatic)
Abstract
One of the most important gains in the field of brain surgery is the operative treatment of epilepsy, which received the right of citizenship only in the last 2 decades. This improvement, accompanied by an undoubted success in a whole series of cases, forced to revise the very scholarship on epilepsy, to a known degree to modify its scientific theory. Let us give in the form of provisions some of the newest views.
On the question of the mechanism of dermographism on the back and back of the neck and about the diagnostic significance of it
Abstract
Reported on May 15, 1913 in the Kiev Physico-Medical Society. The term “dermographism” was introduced for the first time in 1899 by French authors, Barthelemy, Lamy-Féré, who proposed in this way to call the ability of the skin to be colored when drawing a line on it with some kind of solid subject.
Ankylosis of 5 vertebrae in case of "lumbarity" of the spine
Abstract
Since the publication of the first case of spinal stiffness in 1892 by Professor Bekhterev, enough time has passed, a whole literature on this issue has appeared, and both the clinical, pathological and microscopic picture, as well as the relation of the stiffness of the spine to the spondylose Mariehizomélium, have appeared.
On the issue of acute course and pathological anatomy of polyneuritic psychosis
Abstract
It is not the first time that I have to speak out on the issue of polyneuritis and polyneuritic psychosis. I had to touch on the field of pathological anatomy and ethiology of polyneuritis (bacterium coli), poisoning with carbon dioxide, to touch on the symptomatology of multiple neuritis (the phenomenon of constant hyperkinesis), and its pathogenesis, as well as to try to approach the apparatus experimentally and experimentally with
To the question of the state of skin and tendon reflexes in Thomsen's disease (Myotonia congentia)
Abstract
The first indications in the literature on this disease refer to 1832, when Dr. Bell paid attention to him, and to 1866, when Leyden returned to him; but nevertheless it was Thomsen who first described it in detail, and it deservedly bears his name.
Radiation emanation and the nervous system
Abstract
Over the past years, in the field of therapeutic knowledge, the greatest interest has aroused, no doubt, the emanation of radio. And although the main attention of researchers was paid to gouty and rheumatic diseases, there is already a sufficient number of indications in the literature regarding the influence of emanation on the nervous system, in general, and on nervous diseases, in particular.
A case of tuberculous meningitis under the guise of Korsakov's psychosis
Abstract
The case, which I will allow myself to report, is of twofold interest. On the one hand, he is interesting in diagnostics, on the other hand, his interest lies in a relatively rare mental picture, observed in this disease and known under the name of Korsakov's psychosis.
Two cases of decompression sickness
Abstract
Patients whom I, with the permission of the Director of the Clinic of Nervous Diseases, Professor L.O.Darkshevich, I have the honor to introduce to the Society, suffer from diseases of the central nervous system due to the influence of air pressure, exceeding the atmospheric pressure.
A case of cranial amіotrophy
Abstract
Prof. Monakow in his capital work on the pathology of the brain in the chapter on muscle atrophies of cranial origin, by the way, says (p. 618) that there are few such cases described in the literature, although this kind of atrophies are not encountered so often.
Dementia praecox paranoides
Abstract
In 1908, Kölpin's work appeared in the literature under the title “about premature dementia and especially about his paranoid form” and thus this term first appeared, but the psychological study of this form of the disease was first submitted by V. I. Rudnev
Chronicles and mix
Abstract
Professor Wassermann has been appointed director of the Kaiser Wilheims Institute of Experimental Therapy in Dahlem’е. (Review of Psychiatry No. 3). - The Medical Council of the city of Moscow recognized it necessary to build the third Psychiatric Hospital for 1500 beds with its subsequent expansion.