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.

Before proceeding with the description of the observed case, we will allow, in a few words, to touch upon the literature that treats pathological fear in general and the difficulty of swallowing caused by mental influences, in particular.

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.

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.

Above all, the authors establish that obsessions are an independent psychoneurosis like hysteria or epilepsy.

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.

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.

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.

Hebephrenia occurs frequently, more often than is commonly thought: it is 10% and more common than all diseases at a young age. The rarely observed form of hebephrenia-geboid-deserves special attention.

Bordet's discovery of a specific poison for red blood balls (hemolysin) has involved a number of works and the discovery of new specific poisons for various types of cells.