Vol 31, No 7 (1935)
Sources of medical errors and ways of their elimination
Abstract
The history of medicine teaches us that this path of development was very rich in hobbies and mistakes, and that it was from misconceptions, from studying and overcoming them that the truth was obtained. Paradox and argument have always been powerful engines of medical science. No one has enriched medicine with new, fruitful ideas in the same way as those who have made big mistakes, fallen and rose again.
Drinking water at industrial enterprises of Kazan
Abstract
The fight to reduce morbidity and thus increase productivity at work should be carried out not only on the basis of extensive health improvement measures, but also by streamlining the so-called "trifles" that often significantly deteriorate the sanitary situation at enterprises. These "trifles" should also include the supply of drinking water to industrial workers.
White blood picture in comparison with erythrocyte sedimentation reaction and reticulecytosis in pulmonary tuberculosis
Abstract
The picture of white blood in pulmonary tuberculosis has been studied sufficiently on a large material. In a critical assessment of the hemogram, almost all authors are unanimous. The same can be said about the erythrocyte sedimentation reaction. These laboratory methods — hemogram and ROE — have already been sufficiently introduced into the use of the tuberculosis clinic. In recent years, great importance has been attached to determining the number of erythrocytes with intravital staining granularity — reticulecytes.
Brucellosis in humans and in particular damage to the nervous system in brucellosis
Abstract
The clinical picture of explicit brucellosis is very polymorphic, characterized by the variability of symptoms and a significant number of complications, affecting the functions of a wide variety of organs. The nervous system - peripheral, central with its shells, cerebrospinal and vegetative - is numerous, varied and very frequent.
Postoperative bleeding in patients with gastric resection
Abstract
In recent years, indications have appeared in the literature that the observed postoperative bleeding in gastric patients depends mainly on biological changes in the blood — the presence of thrombopenia in such patients, decreased blood clotting and leukopenia. We set out to test this opinion on our clinical material.
Preventive examination of the upper respiratory tract, its role and significance in the problem of laryngeal tuberculosis
Abstract
The difficulty and often complete helplessness of the fight against laryngeal tuberculosis forced modern phthisiolaryngologists to look for new ways to study this extremely difficult and serious problem. This helplessness is acutely felt not only in a small area of the laryngeal tuberculosis, but also on the entire wide front of the fight against tuberculosis infection.
Treatment of soft chanker with copper sulfate solution by iontophoresis
Abstract
Looking through all the literature available to us, we found only two works on the effect of copper sulfate on the treatment of soft chancre. Yersіld, who at a congress in Strasbourg in 1928 reported on the treatment of soft chancre, applied this treatment to a group of six of 18 people; 17 of them got excellent results; the cure of the soft chancre came in a very short time, and the sixth buboes never had such a treatment. The author considers this method even prophylactic in relation to the emergence of buboes with soft chancre. Another work of the Russian author - Kugushev, who applied the treatment of soft chancre by iontophoresis on a group of 18 patients and received good results, having achieved a cure within 4-25 days.
Relapses of scarlet fever
Abstract
There are a number of published works that describe the clinical picture of scarletine relapses and explain their pathogenesis. In recent years, this issue has been the focus of much attention and discussion at the Russian-German Congress on Scarlatine in Koenigsberg in 1928. Scarlatine relapses are rare, and even on large hospital material they are rarely observed. I will not list all the statistics on the subject, I will only note a few authors from the literature available to me.
B. coli transformations in the intestine and bacteriophage
Abstract
Changes in the survival of bacteria from the destructive effects of the phage are based on their transformation into lyso-resistant races, against which a whole series of microbial variations with respect to morphological, cultural-biochemical, serological features and virulence are developed. Particularly numerous and varied studies are devoted to the variability influenced by the phage among the bacteria of the intestinal-typhose group, where its manifestations are most exclusive. Escherichia coli has been the subject of many observations.
About the method of growing anaerobes on the surface of dense media
Abstract
Anaerobes play a prominent role in the etiology of wound infections. Hence, the aspirations of bacteriologists to find such a method of growing: anaerobes, which, in simplicity, would not be inferior to aerobic, i.e. would not require special devices, nor a significant amount of time for its implementation. Until now, there is no such method in the arsenal of bacteriological methods.
On the issue of adverse outcomes in the treatment with colouring substances
Abstract
Aniline paints, discovered in the middle of the 19th century, quickly gained widespread use in various industries. Soon, their harmful effect was noticed (for the first time fuchsin — Chevallier, 1866) on the body in terms of local and general lesions (eczema, facial edema, vomiting, diarrhea, paresis, etc.).
On the use of carbolic acid solution in gas gangrene and phlegmon
Abstract
Carbolic acid is successfully used for skin diseases, anthrax, carbuncles, for washing infected joints with a 1-3% solution or in the form of Chlumsky's liquid. Bacelli recommends it for the treatment of tetanus. We used a 3% solution of carbolic acid in the treatment of gas gangrene and phlegmon.
Treatment of malaria with strychnine
Abstract
The costly import of antimalarial drugs and, in particular, quinine, prompts us to look for new drugs in the treatment of this disease, which causes enormous harm to the population. Based on our own observations over a long period of time, we can state that strychnine gives a more or less positive result and that it is permissible to think about the significant persistence of these results.
Two cases of uterine fibromioma during pregnancy and childbirth
Abstract
Fibroids of the uterus and pregnancy are not uncommon. Pregnancy with this often ends in successful childbirth. Nevertheless, there are such combinations of fibroids and pregnancy that make the doctor go through a lot at the patient's bedside before deciding on this or that event. An example is our two cases described below.
Acute dilation of the uterus during scraping
Abstract
In this note, I will touch upon a complication called uterine paralysis, relaxation, or acute expansion. It is found both in scrapings for gynecological diseases and in miscarriages, but for some reason it is not mentioned in modern books describing the scraping operation.
Hypoglycemia and gastric secretion
Abstract
The mechanism that regulates gastric acid secretion depends on many factors. Some humorally maintain the constant secretion of the stomach by purely chemical processes. Others, of nervous origin, act either reflexively or under the influence of central or parasympathetic stimulation.
Typhus vaccination by enteral route in monkeys
Abstract
In their previous work, the authors showed that the typhus virus (guinea pig brain) can pass through the intestinal wall. This phenomenon is observed regularly with rat typhus virus, less regularly with European typhus virus and rocky mountain fever.
Serologic differentiation of peripheral nerves (especially the autonomic nervous system) from the cerebral cortex
Abstract
The author showed that the sera obtained by immunizing rabbits with a suspension of n. sympathicus and n. vagus, do not show specific properties when tested with alcoholic extracts from the same nerves; these serums have only the properties of ordinary neuroanti-serums.
Hypochloremia in cancer patients under the influence of radiotherapy
Abstract
The authors, examining 45 patients with cancer, found: 1) mild plasma hypochoremia, which was more pronounced, the worse the general condition of the patient was (3.90-2.94, on average 3.31); 2) hypochloremia of erythrocytes is almost constant (2.80-1.66, on average — 2.24) and 3) a pronounced increase in the ratio of erythrocyte chlorine to plasma chlorine.
Plenary sessions of the TR Scientific Medical Association
Abstract
At the plenary sessions of the Scientific Medical Association on February 10 and 11, 1935, two reports were heard of Professors P.F. Zdrodovsky and I.M. Frank, delegated by the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine to carry out a production campaign named after the 16th Congress of Soviets.