This brief report is prompted, on the one hand, by the desire to arouse interest in the latest achievements of oncology, on the other, by the desire to promote the creation of an organization in the Republic of Tatarstan to study and combat cancer.

The establishment in medicine of the concept of a constitution is usually associated with the name of Hippocrates, who distinguished between good and bad, strong and weak, wet and dry, sluggish and elastic constitutions. He pointed to the innate constitutional properties and took into account the importance of individual constitutional features both in the origin of diseases and in their prognosis and treatment. About 500 years later, Hippocratic "krazes" and "dyscrasias" were brought by Galen into a harmonious doctrine, which prevailed almost unchanged until the Renaissance (17th century). From this era - the era of the beginning of the study of human anatomy and physiology - additions, amendments and changes are made to the concept of the Hippocrates-Galen constitution, which, however, have put little real, scientifically substantiated into the intuitive concept of the constitution of the creator of the so-called. humoral pathology.

Magnus (Handb. D. Biol. Arbeitsmethoden, 1923, Abt. V, Bd. 2) uses an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide for this purpose. Free oxygen, released when the solution comes into contact with catalase contained in the lymphatic vessels, fills these vessels and lymphatic spaces.

On the basis of studies carried out on dogs, AA Troitskaya (Vesti. Khir. And Pogr. Obl., 1926, No. 16) found that none of the 6 lower intercostal nerves in dogs, apparently, gives motor branches to the diaphragm , the muscles of which are supplied with motor nerves exclusively from n. phrenicus; therefore cutting n. phrenici entails complete paralysis and atrophy of the phrenic muscle on the corresponding side (this paralysis in a dog is not fatal).