Root drill. Hand tool, the working part of which is made in the form of a tapered helical spiral with a sharp edge. Designed to expand and clean the root canal. Manufactured in five sizes: from d1 0.40 mm, d2 0.25 mm (No. 1) to d1 0.60 mm, d2 0.45 mm (No. 5).

Proceeding from the tasks set by the 23rd Congress of the CPSU for Soviet health care, the Scientific Medical Council of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR attaches paramount importance to the fastest implementation of the results of scientific achievements into the practice of medical and preventive institutions.

Before the Great October Socialist Revolution in the former Kazan province, there were single X-ray rooms organized in the university clinics on the initiative of leading medical scientists (Burgsdorf, Kazem-Bek, Luria, etc.). However, due to the imperfection of X-ray equipment, the lack of doctors and technicians with special training, X-ray examinations were carried out from case to case and were of a primitive nature.

We have analyzed the experience of reducing child mortality in the Verkhne-Uslonsky region of the TASSR. The infant mortality rate in the district from 1962 to 1965 decreased 3.6 times.

To find out the incidence of urolithiasis in the city of Leninogorsk, we studied the case histories of persons who were treated in the surgical department of the Central District Hospital in 1956-1965.

I. Ya. Yakovlev (1841-1930) gave a lot of strength and energy to the development of the Chuvash national culture. He founded the Simbirsk Chuvash school (1868), a teacher's school (1890), opened about 400 primary schools in the Chuvash villages of the Kazan, Simbirsk, Saratov and Samara provinces.

The library of the Society of Physicians at Kazan University was founded in 1868 at the same time as the Society. Her first books were the works of the Society and literature received from other societies in exchange. The library was headed by professors and doctors of medicine A. V. Petrov (1868-1874), V. P. Ivanov (1874-1877), V. D. Orlov (1877-1883), A. GI. Arnoldov (1883-1886), A. A. Panormov (1886-1889), M. V. Kazansky (1889-1913), V. P. Nebolyubov (since 1913).

August 7, 1968 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth and 55 years of the teaching, scientific and social activities of the most prominent Soviet morphologist, full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the International Academy of the History of Medicine, Professor Vasily Nikolaevich Ternovsky.

Our literature almost does not reflect the selfless work of surgeons and other doctors during the Great Patriotic War. The book by A. A. Vishnevsky fills this gap.

Toxicosis of pregnancy is a relatively frequent and severe complication of pregnancy. Meanwhile, since the publication of GA Baksht's work "Pregnancy and Metabolism" in 1929, no major works on the issue of metabolism in normal and pathological pregnancy have been published in the domestic literature.

The work of V. M. Solovieva raises an objection from the very first paragraph.

In our work, we were based on the action of glucocorticoids (prednisone, prednisolone), which are especially effective in increasing the deposition of glycogen, rather than DOC (DKA), which, as you know, belongs to mineralocorticoids and has a pronounced activity in relation to the retention of sodium ion and excretion of potassium ion. in the liver.

The article by S. G. Vainshtein is an attempt to enter into a discussion with V. M. Solovieva about the advisability of using glucocorticosteroids in patients with angina pectoris and chronic coronary insufficiency.

On February 21, 1968, the head of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases of the Kazan State Pedagogical University named after V.I. VI Lenin, Honored Doctor of the TASSR, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Yakov Davidovich Pechnikov.

On March 27, 1968, at the age of 81, Boris Alexandrovich Voltaire, one of the oldest professors of the Kazan Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Medical Institute named after V.I. SV Kurashova, former head of the Department of Infectious Diseases. He was an excellent clinician, a talented teacher, a great scientist, a man of great soul.