I have chosen as a specialty the study of the most important in the hygienic relationship of microbes of the plant and animal kingdom. Microbes play an important role in a person's life. Some turned out to be the causative agents of diseases. At the present time, almost with all infectious diseases of a person, microbes producing them have been found.

Until the end of the day, this question has not been resolved positively. Fur can be dangerous as a carrier of infection if it is obtained from an animal ill or died from some infectious disease. Most often, anthrax spreads with furs, most often from sheepskin coats, hats, especially in troops.

Sergievskiy mineral water, almost the oldest in Russia in terms of the time of its discovery, for 200 years of its existence did not acquire the fame of a real resort and until the very last days did not leave the framework of a modest medical place. It is not for nothing that they are called the forgotten resort. Not only the general public has forgotten about them, but also the medical brotherhood.

E. Hirtz, G. Delamare and J. Cénevrier jointly describe a case of acute leukemia, without going into special details about which form, to which type of leukemia it should be attributed.

Sahli's new method for the study of gastric chemistry by means of a desmoid test, published last year, has generated great expectations. Indeed, it was very tempting to do without the aid of a gastric tube, the use of which, not to mention the slovenliness of the method, often causes difficulties, especially for nervous individuals.

At the congress of Austrian balneologists (March 5, 1906, in Dresden), among other things, the issue of pathological albuminuria and physical methods of its treatment was discussed, and it was found that ordinary active hyperemia is the most favorable condition for circulating blood in the opposite of ishemia or stasis, which invariably leads to urine discharge.