Among the dietary methods of treating children's diarrhea, the apple diet occupies a prominent place. This old folk remedy, first described by Gessing, Klimsch and Geisler, was thoroughly tested by Moro on children in 1925.Since then, the apple diet has become more widespread and has been used with success in the treatment of dysentery, colitis, dyspepsia and other intestinal diseases as in children. and in adults (Kolman, Menshikov, Melentieva, Wolf, Zero, Vinnikov and Davletbaev, etc.).

The main source of infection with dysentery is sick and recovering people. In patients, the process can proceed in an acute or chronic form. Through their feces, these persons infect the environment, edible products (especially water consumed raw, flies. Acute dysentery patients, chronic and convalescent patients cause the appearance of healthy carriers - carriers of infection.

Recently, in the USSR, more and more attention is paid to the biological method of fighting the malaria mosquito using the insectivorous mosquito fish, the mosquito. In the specialized, mainly medical, literature there have already appeared several dozen separate articles, treating the issues of acclimatization of biology and the use of mosquito fish in the fight against malaria in various southern parts of the USSR: Abkhazia, Georgia, Dagestan, North. Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Southern Ukraine (Rukhadze, Kalendadze, Speransky, Enikolopov, Bogoyavlensky, Bogdanovich, Danilova, Prendel, Nepokupnoy, Kulagin, Petrishcheva, Lindberg Epstein and others). In the work of prof. Sergieva and Kovtun "Organization of the fight against malaria in the USSR" "Medical Parasitology", No. 6, 1937), which is a review for the 20th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution, the use of mosquito fish is considered as one of the main measures in the fight against the vector of malaria.

In the periodical literature over the past 10 years, there is a very small number of works devoted to the issue of the provocation of malaria by surgical trauma, although surgeons, who are often forced to operate on malaria, must have faced a similar postoperative complication. This issue we have in the Volga region and in particular in the Saratov region, where malaria occurs, should be of great importance and requires special attention. Our clinic studied the impact of surgical trauma on the provocation of malaria during 1936 and 1937.

The idea of ​​introducing narcotic substances into the bloodstream in order to obtain anesthesia appeared long before the use of ether and chloroform for inhalation anesthesia. Scheel reports on the work of Elsgolts, which appeared in 1665. This author succeeded by intravenous administration of opium preparations to achieve anesthesia satisfactory for that time. In 1845, Florence used intravenous chloral in dogs. After the discovery of the narcotic properties of ether, they tried to use it for intravenous anesthesia in order to avoid those unpleasant phenomena associated with the inhalation method of its use. Burcktardt was the first to propose to use ether intravenously and was the first to apply this method in practice. Kümmel proposed a combination of ether with isopral. Ogier in 1875 reported 51 cases of successful anesthesia with intravenous chloral in humans. In our country, Kravkov was offered hedonal and applied in the clinic by prof. Fedorov.