Dinitrophenol in its physiological action is similar to thyroxine, it stimulates oxidation processes. Dinitronaphthol, dinitrocresol, dinitrotimol and dinitrocyclopentylphenol also have this property. Dinitrophenol is used in the treatment of obesity.

The accidental observation of a severely diabetic with furunculosis and high fever, where after giving pyramidon, in addition to a drop in t°, a drop in blood sugar was observed for several days, served G. Krause and H. Marx the reason for a more detailed study of the action of Pyramidon, on healthy and diabetic persons.

The authors found that in exudates the lactic acid content is higher (4 times higher on average), and the sugar content is significantly lower (by 1/2 on average) than in blood. Increase of lactic acid occurs due to sugar glycolysis by enzymes of leukocytes (as a result, in exudates rich in leukocytes, higher amounts of lactic acid are found). In transudates the amount of sugar and lactic acid is almost the same as in blood (there is no glycolysis).

The author, discussing the possibility of long-term lowering of blood sugar by adrenal denervation, concludes on the basis of his research that there is a grain of truth in the method of adrenal denervation in theory. In practice, however, the method is unlikely to be considered suitable for the treatment of diabetes.

Peptic ulcers in children are often detected by radiological examination in pediatric clinics. In the acute form, ulcers also occur in infants with various signs such as melena, pain in the epigastric region, vomiting, etc.

The author cites his observations (17 in number), on the basis of which he gives new reference points for early diagnosis of the prodromal stage of measles.

The number of surgically treated cases of brain tumors in Japan is barely 50. A. operated on a 23-year-old man for a brain tumor in the Gyrus centrum, ant. sinistra.

With direct inguinal hernias and recurrent hernias, the author proposes to replace the abdominal wall defect in the following way: a quadrangular aponeurosis flap is cut on the leg upward medial to the external inguinal ring and then, after removing the sac, the formed aponeurosis flap is sutured with its extended outer edge to the umbilical ligament, and closes the defect in the aponeurosis.

The authors describe 27 cases of spleen removal.

The author proposes not to put on plaster corsets leading to a greater or lesser degree of shock to treat fractures, but by treating without immobilization while the patient is bedridden with ball tapping massage.

Автор наблюдал 3 случая острого аппендицита, где спустя 3—5 дней после операции был обнаружен газ в окружности операционной раны.

The authors tried to establish a relationship between the frequency of embolisms and meteorological changes and concluded that there is no clear influence of weather on the occurrence of embolisms.

The authors are critical of the new method of treating osteomyelitis with larvae and consider Orr's method more valuable.

The author reports in his dissertation work that in 53 cases of pulmonary complications after gastric surgery, the infection entered from the nasopharynx rather than from metastases from gastric lesions.

The authors observed electrolytic differences in their analyses of aseptic wounds compared to serum: Ca and K increased, in contrast, Na decreased, Cl slightly decreased.

The author observed the frequency of purulent processes of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (furunculus, carbuncle, phlegmon, panaricles and abscesses) and found no connection between them and the weather and the seasons.

The authors used 33% alcohol in amounts ranging from a few cc's to 200 for intravenous injection. Syringes and cannulas should be paraffin-coated. The authors observed 2 successful cases.

The author was convinced that it is the influence of hormones, not the action of proteins, that is important in wound healing. A rich supply of hormones leads to a rapid improvement in metabolism, and the latter promotes rapid wound healing.

Most authors imply under the name Hydrocele feminina cruralis communicans the accumulation of fluid in the round ligament after partial obliteration of the processus vaginalis communis (Nusk's canal).

The author cites 6 cases of unusual findings in the hernia sac: Mesquel's diverticulum in the hernia sac, appendicitis in the hernia sac, appendicitis with empyema of the hernia sac with concurrent right-sided inguinal hernia, encapsulated hemorrhage in the hernia sac, ovary and tube prolapse in a pediatric inguinal hernia.

Agenda:

1) Assistant A.T. Timofeev: "Industrial injuries and struggle against them in conditions of Kozlovsky industrial complex "Stroydetal".

2) Prof. I.K. Lukyanov: "About work of conference of scientific-research institutes of communal economy and hygiene".

3) Dr. M.I. Zelenov: "Experience of chlorination of water of a water-canal system in spring of 34 year".

The author used material from 269 infertile women, of whom 43% had bilateral tubal occlusion and 57% had unilateral occlusion, to conclude that in a not so small percentage of cases, filling the uterus and tubes with contrast fluids (iodipine and lipoiodel) enables pregnancy to occur.

The authors give a literature summary of the successful use of Pernocton in eclampsia and cite their own three cases.

The author found, by continuous observation over several menstrual cycles, in most cases strong bactericidal. against the sybiliform bacilli during menstruation and immediately thereafter.

In experiments on rabbits, the authors found that the fetal vascular system reacts to parenterally injected foreign protein during pregnancy in the uterus by developing hyperergic inflammation. These observations acquire some significance for human pathology as well, drawing attention to the study of endocarditis in fetuses.

Twenty-eight people were present, including 22 section members and six seconded physicians.

Doctor Jachimovitch. Demonstration of a patient with retinitis exsudativa Coats'a (?).

Demonstration of a patient with cysticercus in corp. vitr. (?)

Debates: Prof. V.E. Adamyuk, A.N. Murzin.

Eye Section. Meeting of January 21, 1934. Chairman Prof. A. N. Murzin. Twenty-two persons were present.

The convening of the Fourth International Anti-Rheumatic Congress in 1934 coincided with the celebration of the five-year existence of the International Anti-Rheumatic League, of which the USSR is also a member. The increased interest in the problem of rheumatism in recent years from both theoretical and practical points of view has attracted a large number of participants to this congress.

The Central Administration of National Economic Accounting, among other indicators of the national economy, publishes (USSR in Figures. Soyuzorguchet, 1934) a number of very interesting numerical data characterizing the dynamics of the development of public health in our Union. For a comparative characterization of "the state of health care in pre-revolutionary Russia and in the USSR by the beginning of the first five-year plan and by the time of its completion the main quantitative indices of 1913, 1928 and 1932 are taken. It is true that our successes and achievements in health care are determined not only by the expansion of the medical and sanitary network with the increase of the work of our institutions and of the number of visits and visits, for the Soviet health care, created by the October Revolution, was built on entirely different principles, sharply different from those of the bourgeois-capitalist health care system; but quantitative indicators, since they do not lack qualitative significance, are also of considerable interest for us.

The meeting held on 29/V of this year under the Health Sector of the USSR State Planning Committee heard reports from the Tatnar Health Committee on the status and prospects of the development of sanitation in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The prophylactic basis of Soviet medicine was most clearly formulated in the program of the All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks: In the basis of its activities in the field of protection of people's health, the All-Union Communist Party (b) believes primarily in carrying out extensive health and sanitary measures aimed at preventing the development of diseases. The prophylactic principle, as the only scientific direction, has formed the basis of the development of all medical and sanitary affairs in our Union, and the practice of socialist health care has very rich experience in the organization and implementation of broad prophylactic measures, which are one of the factors raising the socialist culture of the workers and helping to meet their growing cultural demands.

Chemical processes in nerves. The comparatively small number of observations that have been made on chemical processes in nerves has until recently been reduced to the use of electric current as an artificial stimulus, as the most convenient and accessible to control the strength of the stimulation. In 1932 Prof. Schmidt reported that he had succeeded in finding a quantitative relationship between the increase of oxidative processes in the nerves and the strength of the electric current irritation.

On the night of July 18 to 19, 1934, S. S. Zuckerman, assistant of the Therapeutic Clinic of the Gorsud Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians, died.