Relevance of the problem of rapid recovery of ability to work dictates the need to use blood transfusion in the daily practice of health care. Wide popularization and practical application of this method in modern conditions of collective farm village is imperative. This task can be solved by district district hospitals.

As any new method of treatment, gravidanotherapy is met with varying opinions. Some expect "miracles" from this method of treatment, believing that gravidanotherapy has found a new all-encompassing, excluding all other methods of treatment. On the other hand, there is an undeniable tendency to downplay or even completely deny the importance of gravidanotherapy. Finally, some authors consider gravidanotherapy as a method giving only subjective improvement of patients' well-being, the success of which is based on mass psychotherapy. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that gravidan, given its composition, should have a significant effect on the human body. It is only necessary that clinical observations and experimental verification give an unbiased assessment of the action of the drug and determine the place of gravidanotherapy in the arsenal of means of modern medicine.

There were 2 large stones in the gallbladder, one of them completely occluded d. cysticus. Robb thinks that the cause of obesity was distension and atrophy of the gallbladder wall. The author explains calcification as a result of d. cystici blockage resulting in distension and atrophy of the gallbladder wall.

The prognosis was more favorable in women than in men, probably because the latter had more frequent genital complications (71%). The persistent cure rate was 50% in women and only 38% in men. In 6% of the cases there was death after an average of 15 years from a shriveled kidney. 38% died subsequently of tuberculosis of the other kidney.

The authors note that smoking tobacco causes an increase in blood pressure and heart rate and a decrease in skin temperature in the fingers and toes due to increased peripheral vasoconstriction. The authors confirm these findings with experimental observations.

Tobacco smoking plays a significant role in the development of peptic ulcer. The frequency of the disease is in accordance with the constant increase in the amount of tobacco consumed. Out of 153 operated and investigated after surgery, 97.7% smoked a lot (mostly cigarettes, 20-30 pieces per day).

The author reports 165 cases of severe postpartum hemorrhage observed in the Leipzig Obstetrical Clinic from 1924-1933.

The author cites the literature of the question and his own experiments on the effect of menstrual blood on yeast fermentation.

The author, a witness to and participant in the fight against a major influenza epidemic, provides an interesting observation concerning the frequency and nature of the course of a particular or other оtorhinolaryngologist disease during an influenza epidemic.

Two women aged 32 and 35 years had myelogenous leukemia at 7 and 8 months of pregnancy. In the first case normal delivery at term, in the second by cesarean section. In both cases after delivery, the disease worsened sharply and death in the first case after 6 days and in the second after 24 hours.

The author says that recently many people in medicine have been dealing with the question of post-angina sepsis, but despite a number of extensive works by Vass, Uffenorde, Сlaus and others, there is still no clarity here. There is a rich diversity in the questions of where the entrance gate is and what are the ways of spreading the general infection.

Regional Scientific-Medical Association of the ATSR. Surgical Section. Meeting of November 14, 1934. Chairman Prof. M.O. Friedland. Secretary Assistant Professor G.M. Novikov. 

October 28, 1934 was the 35th anniversary of medical, scientific and industrial work of the oldest microbiologist of Tatarstan and the oldest employee of the Kazan Microbiological Institute, Pyotr Yakovlevich Maykov.

On the night of August 5 this year in Odessa from septicaemia died at the age of 66 director of the faculty therapeutic clinic of the Odessa Medical Institute Professor Lazar Borisovich Bukhshtab.