The most difficult and thankless area of treatment for chronic joint diseases is arthrosis or osteoarthritis.

In this message we are talking about a well-expressed case of Reckünghausen's disease, which we had the opportunity to observe in the autumn of last year. Without going into the details of the literary review of neurofibromatosis, we decided to focus on the analysis of our patient only because this case is interesting for its pronounced familial and hereditary nature of the disease and the presence of significant tumor sizes emanating from the plexus brachialis sin., Which caused severe suffering to the patient. and therefore demanded surgical intervention.

Chondromatosis is a rare disease related to the pathology of the joint capsule, and is characterized by the fact that inside the joint cavity we find formations of various sizes, irregular round shape of tumor nodes, lying freely, sometimes on legs emanating from the synovium. These formations disfigure the shape of the joint and often cause a sharp restriction of mobility, sometimes bringing the range of motion to a minimum.

In recent years, the issue of volvulus of the sigmoid colon has received a lot of attention at surgical congresses, at meetings of surgical societies, and on the pages of surgical journals. In defense of this or that method of treating this suffering, statistical data, immediate and long-term results, pathological and anatomical justifications are given. However, there seems to be no complete agreement on this issue among surgeons. We do not think on the basis of our small material to draw any generalizing conclusions, but nevertheless several cases operated on and under our supervision over the last 4 years (1926-1930) give us a small right to share our results.

Although dysmenorrhea is a fairly frequent and, incidentally, a very painful disease for a working woman, its nature is far from fully elucidated; therefore, in the treatment of this disease, complete, so to speak, arbitrariness, polypharmacy, empiricism reigns; the success of treatment is usually minimal.

Postoperative, as well as postpartum ischuria is a very unpleasant complication, since all commonly used means are heat to the bladder, instillation of 10% boric glycerin into the bladder (Corbineau method), liq. kalii acetici per os, injections of 1.0-2.0 25% magnesiae sulfur, under the skin (Voytashevsky method), intravenous injections of 5.0-10.0 40% urotropin (according to V o g t'y) - often give refusal or induce urination after many hours and thus force the use of a catheter. As for catheterization, this method is recognized as fraught with complications and should be used, according to Dieterichs, only as an ultimum refugium.

At present, the essence of the so-called hypnosis has been sufficiently revealed by the brilliant works of Acad. Pavlov and his staff, and in particular the school of prof. Krasnogorsky, who studied these phenomena in children.

Despite many proposed theories, the pathogenesis of epilepsy has not yet been finally resolved. The idea of the nature of epilepsy, expressed at one time by Charcot, is still being recognized, namely, that the essence of epilepsy lies in the increased excitability of the cerebral cortex and the increased tendency of the latter to motor discharges.

The work of Professor H.E. Osokin and S.M. Oxengendler in 1923, as well as a report at the 2nd Volga Congress of S.M. epilepsy with the Pasteur vaccine showed the feasibility of using it in fresh cases where seizures did not have time to leave their mark on the psyche of patients.

At present, treatment with animal drugs (opotherapy) has become widespread. There are hundreds of such drugs under a wide variety of names and sometimes with a completely unknown composition.