The impetus for this article was provided by Ing. I. M. Pautkin and Dr. D. N. Matveev (for which I am grateful to them) the following works:

The mountain-taiga part of Eastern Transbaikalia, located between the rivers Shilka and Argunya, is struck by a peculiar endemic disease - Beck's disease, after the name of its main researcher, Urovskoy disease - after the name of the river where it is most pronounced.

The problem of Trans-Baikal endemic polyarthritis or Kashin-Beck's disease, and in the language of the local population of the Urovka disease, is so urgent that the organs of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, the People's Commissariat of Railways, Tsustrakh and other branches of the national economy and industry are interested in studying it.

In August of this year, the Urovsky endemic focus was visited by an interdepartmental government expedition of 34 scientific workers in groups: clinical, veterinary-zootechnical, hydrological, sanitary-hygienic. The results of the work revealed at the final conference are as follows

Agglutinating sera, as a means for determining the physiognomy of this or that microorganism, took one of the first places in microbiology.

A silent “infection, according to Reiter’y, is one that does not show any clinical symptoms, just like Levinthal’s“ Symptomlose Infektion ”. As you know, about 10% of rabbits experimentally infected with syphilis do not detect, after inoculation by means of pieces of chancre containing millions of spirochetes, no clinical signs of syphilis: there are no primary affects, there are no sufficiently definite infiltrates at the vaccination site, there are no swelling of the glands and secondary phenomena.

In search of a satisfactory explanation of the pathogenesis of heart failure, the clinic has not been satisfied for a long time with one account of changes in the contractility of the heart muscle and changes in valves, but turns its attention to peripheral circulation.

Volhard, who tested the auditory method for determining blood pressure (according to Korotkov y) on a large material of renal diseases, considers it "a method better than which there is nothing better to be desired." Martine, describing it as the Ehret'a way, gives it an edge over other methods.

In operations on the jaws with discontinuity of the jawbone, the task of the surgeon is to prevent the harmful consequences of this fact and restore the function of the organ.

Dr. V. II. Kazansky in the article Operation Gale “(Noah. Hir ... archive, No. 98, 1932) indicates that throughout the USSR this operation was performed only 4 times: the cases of Pole nova, the case of Voznesensky - E two cases — his. For our part, we consider it necessary to add here about the described 2 cases of Burdenko, 2 - Maksimovpcha and the case of Zdanovskiy.

As can be seen from the literature of the question, the question of caring for the umbilical cord in newborns, despite the numerous observations made in this direction, is still controversial.

Since 1916-1917, the period of the last pandemic of epidemic encephalitis, infectious diseases of the nervous system have become common and fairly frequent in medical practice. Covering in some places large groups of the population and taking away a large number of working hours from socialist construction, these diseases should be the object of serious study by practically working doctors for their rational therapy and prevention.

The current state of the theory of conditioned reflexes dictates the necessity of introducing a physiological method for studying higher "nervous activity" into the everyday life of clinical research.

September 1932 marks the hundredth anniversary of the opening of b. Alexandria Theater, now the State Drama Theater. This jubilee takes place on the 15th anniversary of October, coinciding with the beginning of the second five-year plan, the five-year plan for building a classless society, the five-year plan, which should eliminate the remnants of capitalist elements not only in the economy, but also in the minds of people.

Forensic medical examination should always be based on incontestable provisions, proven by appropriate scientific development. In some cases, the scientific development of individual issues available to date turns out to be insufficient and we have to look for new evidence that will facilitate the exact resolution of the questions posed to the examination. This is the position now on the issue of gunshot injuries.

With the opening of our own prosectura at the Odessa psychiatric hospital, we acquired the opportunity, due to the fact that among the dying not a small percentage belonged to progressive paralytics, to use, among other things, this material in the direction that we thoroughly familiarized ourselves and checked the relatively recently proposed reaction of Sratz in relation to late, on rotten brains, diagnosis of the specified disease.

Resort and sanatorium assistance, based on the wide use of the most effective natural factors, is of great importance in improving the health of the broad masses of workers and increasing labor productivity.

At the moment, when the question of the accelerated development of local resorts is on the turn of the socialist construction of health care, it seems to us quite appropriate to highlight some data concerning the mineral resources of the local region, which could be the basis of resort construction in the Tatrespublika.

Bakirovo-Ikhpteryakskoe sulfur mud swamp lies 35 km away. from st. Klyavlino Samara-Zlatoust railway dor. 5 klm. from the route proposed for the construction of the railroad. the Bugulma-Chistopol line. The swamp is located on the right bank of the river. B. Sheshma in its upper reaches at dd. Bakirovo and Ishteryak, Shugurovsky district, 100 meters north from the lower end of the village.

To carry out the determination of hydrogen sulfide, a special laboratory was deployed in the village of Bakirovo, mainly organized by the laboratory of biological chemistry of the Medical Research Institute [1] with the full assistance of TNKZdrav.

Tumors reaching gigantic sizes usually belong to the group of benign neoplasms, they are found mainly in the genital area (Kedrova, etc.) and are quite rare in other areas of the body. These tumors grow slowly and in some cases, as a result of long-term growth, reach gigantic proportions. Among the huge connective tissue tumors are fibromas, lipomas, chondromas, epithelial - cystomas (Kedrova). An example of a giant chondroma that did not develop from the genital sphere is a tumor that we met at a section in 1931.

The retention of teeth in the thickness of the jaws and their growth in an unusual place, the phenomena are not so frequent.

The three case histories published in this report are of fundamental interest.

Intestinal obstruction is one of the chapters of modern surgery, where not all questions have yet been clarified and developed, which can be seen at least from the fact that this topic is the subject of discussion at the congresses and does not leave the pages of the surgical press. One thing is certain that the therapy of acute obstruction is exclusively surgical.

The reports made by representatives of the USSR at the International Demographic Congress in Rome and at the International Planning Congress in Amsterdam are of great interest to the general medical community. Knowledge of the social changes that have taken place in our country, as a result of the implementation of the five-year plan for the socialist reconstruction of our economy, will provide each doctor with an understanding of the immediate tasks facing healthcare at this stage.

“In the current era of socialist construction and the struggle for a new cultural being, body hygiene and physical education should take one of the first places” —this is how the author — engineer-technologist — begins his work in the preface. The author is right. The issue of “baths and baths” in the process of our cultural and domestic construction is equally relevant in terms of sanitary and hygienic and technical aspects.

The increasing number of students in FZU schools makes the need for proper medical supervision of them increasingly urgent; meanwhile, the work of the GPO doctors, as a completely new business, is still poorly organized and for the most part devoid of competent leadership; and the theoretical foundations of this work, the physiology and pathology of adolescence, have not yet been sufficiently studied.

For the first time, the Moscow Institute of Public Catering publishes a scientific journal on its own. The organization of such a journal makes it possible to print scientific and practical articles not only of a strictly scientific order, but also of a practical one, solving the problems of today.

Small in volume, but rich in content, A.'s work is essentially a collection of difficult cases that most often arise in the professional practice of doctors and pharmacy workers, with the solution of the misunderstandings encountered and with an indication of the general rules for prescribing and preparing medicines.

We are forced to dwell on several works, placed in I and II "collections of Kazan clinics of diseases of the nose, throat and ears for 1931, demonstrating bad turns of speech. For some reason, the editor and publisher were stingy with words and called the “collection of Kazan clinics” instead of calling it “a collection of scientific papers.” But this, for example, is their business.

A. Rivers a F. Vanzant (I. M. A. v. 98, No. 14) emphasize the danger of using unrefined mugshny in the treatment of stomach ulcers, reporting that some mucin preparations in experimental studies on animals and humans gave results

Atkinson (I. MA v. 98, As 14) on 43 patients with a well-established diagnosis of peptic ulcer applied mucin treatment and received extremely favorable results

Ernstenea Robb (1. MA. 97, No. 19) reported: within 7 weeks, 3 brothers and 3 sisters fell ill in one family with an acute infection of the upper respiratory tract and in the period from 7-12 days from the onset of the disease had symptoms of acute diffuse glomerulonephritis

Jachson (I. Med. A. 7. 97, No. 26) examined 600 cases and came to a trace, conclusions

Dr. S. Samuelson (D. medic. Woch. 1932, no. 9) cites a case of left-sided diaphragmatic hernia after a chest wound with a grenade. For 16 years, diaphragmatic hernia was not recognized in b-th

Prof. Nasso (Klin. Woch. No. 7, 1932) considers it possible to assume, on the basis of his own experiments and the observation of a number of other authors, that many febrile diseases of early childhood, with an unknown etiology, can be measles, scarlet fever, and rubella etc., in which the absence of a skin symptom, a rash, must be attributed to insufficient reactivity of the skin.

Alexander Pilez (Psychiatr.-Neurolog. W. No. 21. 1932) reports a case of a brain tumor — a metastatic carcinomatous node compressing the left half of the cerebellum — whose lifetime diagnosis remained impossible.

Jaeger (Surg. Gyn. A. Obst. V. 50, No. 4) gives 2 cases of successful treatment of congenital hip dislocation in young children. In contrast to the generally accepted late reduction, when the deformation of the glenoid cavity has already gone far, the author proposes to set it early.

W. Lower (Surg. Gynec. A. Obst. No. 52.1931) examines his 152 cases of urinary diverticulum. bladder and in the issue of recognizing this suffering gives great value to cystoscopy and especially radiography of the bladder.

D-r. Feh low (Deut, Woch. 1932, No. 9) successfully treats rheumatic diseases with bee venom — apicosan. Treatment is safe and a trial puncture is recommended to detect idiosyncrasy.

Nobert G alatzer („Wiener Klin. W No. 17, 1932) admires his success in the“ somatic treatment ”of psychosis according to the method of treatment of psychosis proposed by the Viennese gynecologist Bernhard Aschner with bloodletting, laxatives and emetics.

Albrecht Peireg (D. med. Woch., No. 18, 1932) admits the presence of a special center of yawning, which phylo-and ontogenetically forms a deeper component of the center of respiration, and is usually inhibited by this latter.

E. Illing (Mschr Psychiatr. 78. 1931) describes 3 cases of psychosis in malignant anemia. 1 case had the character of periodic psychotic disorders of symptomatic color, the other case was distinguished by its deliberate-amentive character and probably developed in connection with myocardiembolism.

Sklar and Ryabova (Astrakhan)) in Monatsschrift f. Psychiatrie 78. I (1931): 75 cases, of which 49 are men and 26 are women. Among these 75 cases, 20 are ordinary psychoses (7 Dementia progesokh, 7 paralytics, 6 circular) and 7 cases of hysteria, the remaining 48 cases are real acute infectious psychoses and were found in the form of the following exogenous types of reaction

Strychnine antidotes. Haggarda. Greenberg report (I. Amer. MA t. 98, No. 14) that apomorphine in doses of 0.0065-0.013. injected under the skin in cases of human poisoning with lethal doses of strychnine, it gave relief from convulsions and other symptoms of poisoning and led to complete recovery (3 case histories are given).

Treatment of alopeciae areatae. Bengtson (T. Amer, MA v. 97. No. 19), using pituitaris extract in 16 patients with alopecia areata, obtained excellent results: first lanugo appeared, and then hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard of the same color appeared, while the general condition improved. The patients were young and old.