When asked what is culture? One of your domestic thinkers gave the following general definition, embracing not only material good, but also moral improvement of the life structure of people. By culture, he says, one should understand the known degree of development of the actual solidarity that exists between various elements and groups of the population of a given country.
In the XII volume of the Kazan Medical Journal for 1912 and in No. 1 of the Centralblatt für Chirugrie for 1913, I published my experiments on the use of constant subcutaneous drainage for the treatment of asditis. Taking advantage of the idea of Mikulich-Krause, who adopted a permanent subcutaneous drainage for the treatment of Hyprocephalus, I, in order to improve the outcome of Talma's operation, added a permanent subcutaneous drainage to it.
Before proceeding with the presentation of the factual side of the matter, I will allow myself to remind those present about the purpose and under what conditions the Society of Physicians allocated the "Commission for the organization of medical care for factory workers based on the laws of June 23, 1912", which represents today Report to society about its work.