Vol 2, No 9 (1902)
Spleen ruptures in forensics
Abstract
Leaving spleen rupture of Gr-va aside, we will now try to resolve some other issues related to the rupture of internal organs and spleen in particular. So, for example, it is practically important to know whether the acute tumour alone makes the spleen fertilisable, or whether there is another condition that favours it.
On the issue of tuberculosis of the tongue and its treatment
Abstract
The reason for this report was three cases of tuberculous lesion of the tongue, observed in one year in Fak. Chir. clinic (1901/2). In all three patients, the same surgical treatment was applied; of course, this gives them a well-known value, bearing in mind some more duration of the subsequent observation.
I. V. Sazhin. Alcoholic heredity. V. M. Magazine. 1902, January
Abstract
The incalculable disastrous consequences of alcoholic inheritance is not a hypothesis, but a firmly, unshakably, scientifically established fact. Alcohol is currently one of the outstanding facts of the spiritual and physical degeneration of offspring.
Steingauz. Epidemic of hiccups. Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry, 1902, b. 3
Abstract
In his article "Epidemia of hiccups" the author pays comparatively much attention to mental epidemics in general. As to the cause of such epidemics, it points to the inadequacy of the normal living conditions of the masses of this or that era, to the antihygienic side of these conditions in some professions and layers of society.
Prof. V.F. Chizh. Definition of progressive paralysis (distinguishing it from related forms). Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry , vols. 1 and 2, 1902
Abstract
Progressive paralysis is, according to the author's opinion, a disease of the whole organism, in which all organs are equally affected by the painful process. Progressive paralysis always develops on the soil of syphilis, and the syphilitic poison is modified in a peculiar way: it ceases to act selectively, that is, it does not affect certain tissues and organs, but causes changes drastically throughout the body.
Privat-docent Vl. Serbsky. On the question of early dementia. Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry, 1902, b. 1 and 2
Abstract
In the first part of his article, the author examines the current state of the issue of secondary dementia and proves that a group of psychoses, known under the name “secondary dementia”, should be left in the classification of mental illnesses. The second part is devoted to the analysis of Kräpelin's scholarship on dementia praecox, and the author fundamentally disagrees with many of the provisions of the latter. In the third part, the ethiology, clinical course and recognition of premature dementia are analyzed.
Prof. Degio. On the senile fading of the heart. Rus. Arch. of Pathology. XIV, vol. I
Abstract
The author, making parallel experiments on young people and old people (lifting with legs of a certain weight), came to the conclusion that the senile heart is not able to maintain that high blood pressure for a long time, which happens during intense physical work, since such a heart is not in a state to accelerate the pulse rate.
V. I. Belyaev. On the formation of peculiar Kraus' sediments. Rus. Archive of Pathology, etc. T. XIV, vol. 2
Abstract
In 1897, Kraus received a special reaction: adding to the filtrate cultures of typhoid, cholera and plague the serum of animals immunized with the appropriate cultures, he received special flocculent sediments, the nature of which has not yet been clarified. Kraus believed that this reaction occurs from the presence in specific sera of special substances that cause the phenomenon of agglutination, and therefore, both the formation of precipitates and the agglutination were considered to be one and the same phenomenon.
Dr. I. Bomstein. Experiments on transformation of non-virulent diphtheria bacillus and pseudo-diphtheria bacillus into virulent Löffier's bacillus. Russ. Arch. of Pathology, etc. Vol. XIV, issue 2
Abstract
By cultivating the virulent bacillus in semi-permeable films (the culture in the collodion beetles descended into the abdominal cavity of the pigs) and, thus, protecting it from the action of leukocytes, the author received an increase in its virulence. In the same way, he managed to impart virulent properties to the non-virulent bacillus.
Celebration in honour of V. A. Kolosov, the director of the Karamzin Colony of the Mentally Ill in Simbirsk Province, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his medical and social activity
Abstract
The celebration in honour of V.A. Kolosov took place on November 21, 1901. On this day, in the morning, a divine liturgy was performed in the colony, and at the end of it, a thanksgiving service was held, after which the priest P.P. Georgievsky addressed the hero of the day with a heartfelt word.