Report on the method of bloodless fixation of easily displaced fragments in case of leg fractures, carried out through the skin with a Kirchner wire. This method, which occupies an intermediate position between osteosynthesis and purely conservative treatment, is indicated only for oblique and torsional fractures with a tendency to displacement of fragments and, moreover, in absolutely aseptic cases.

For the treatment of bursitis subdeltoidea a. recommends the following method: after local anesthesia with novocaine, a needle is inserted into the cavity of the mucous bag at a certain point of the shoulder; with a sufficiently wide lumen, liquid begins to stand out from it.

The most widespread of surgical interventions for osteoarticular tuberculosis is arthrodesis. After the operative fixation of the spine according to the Olbi method, extra-articular arthrodesis began to be used for tuberculous coxitis with quite satisfactory results.

Based on 417 cases of skull base fractures observed at the Zurich Surgical Clinic in 1919-1935, a. believes that the treatment of these fractures should be carried out by a surgeon in close contact with an otolaryngologist, neurologist and ophthalmologist. By itself, a base fracture never serves as an indication for primary surgical intervention; the method of choice is conservative treatment.

Reporting the results of an experimental study in dogs of the effects of various extracts of the prostate gland on the kidneys. Studies have shown that aqueous extracts of hypertrophied prostates in dogs and humans have severe kidney toxicity; extracts from the normal prostate gland of dogs cause only minor and transient changes in the kidneys.