We observed 8 men and 49 women with specific mesoadenitis. At the age of up to 20 years, there were 4 patients, from 21 to 30 years old - 14, from 31 to 40 years old - 22 and older - 17. With a prescription of the disease from 1 year to 5 years there were 18 patients, from 5 to 10 years old - 17, from 10 to 15 years - 12, from 15 to 20 years - 2 and more - 2.

We compared the iodine content in soils and the incidence of endemic goiter in the population of the northwestern regions of the Tatar ASSR based on the materials of expeditionary surveys in 1963-1965, in which the authors took part. Some settlements (Zelenodolsk, Novaya Tura, Osinovo) were known as centers of severe goiter endemic as early as the 19th century. [4, 9, 11]. A serious examination of the state of the thyroid gland in children in the workers' settlements of Vasilyevo and Yudino was carried out by A.G. Suvorov (1936), and in the city of Zelenodolsk — by F. G. Tazetdinova (1964). We did not find data on the incidence of goiter in the northwestern regions of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, depending on the iodine content in the soil, in the literature.

On state farms, the number of industrial injuries per 100 workers decreased in 1966 in comparison with 1963 by 4%.

In May 1948, at the polyclinic No. 5 in Kuibyshev, we opened the first in the Union office-dispensary for hypertensive patients. Subsequently, we opened 9 more such offices in the city of Kuibyshev and some cities of the Kuibyshev region. In 1962 they were reorganized into cardio-rheumatological ones. Two dispensary offices (at the polyclinic No. 5 and the medical unit of the plant) were not reorganized, but provided to us as experimental bases for the study of medical examination mainly of patients with essential hypertension.

In the first period of the Great Patriotic War, a new type of aviation was created - night short-range bomber on Po-2 and R-5 aircraft. Night light crews performed numerous combat missions during the war, from bombing enemy troops and equipment, conducting reconnaissance, numerous communications flights and ending with the urgent delivery of medicines, blood, serum, evacuating the wounded from the military area and from partisan detachments operating behind enemy lines. 

Pyotr Arkadievich Glushkov, the son of a zemstvo doctor, was born in 1880 in the village of Melekess, Samara province.

A small book (about 70 pages of text) is devoted to diuretics widely used in everyday practice. The authors familiarize the doctor with the action of sulfa diuretics, especially hypothiazide. In addition to direct practical information and instructions based on extensive literature (a good literary index is attached) and a lot of their own experience, the authors also highlight the pharmacodynamics of the drugs under discussion.

A simple and safe method of aspiration biopsy of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract gives the doctor the opportunity to perform an intravital morphological examination. The work under review is the first Russian monograph on this topic. It was written by one of the pioneers and ardent promoters of this method.

The monograph by I. Yu. Yudin, which is preceded by a foreword by Academician BV Petrovsky, is devoted to one of the most difficult and complex sections of gastroenterology.

Currently, with tuberculosis, there is a paucity of clinical symptoms, physical data, hematological changes, oligobacillary. Often, even with the disintegration of the lungs, CD is detected only after repeated multiple examinations of sputum; at the same time, in persons suffering from non-tuberculosis diseases, mycobacteria are found that are morphologically similar to tuberculosis, but do not grow on nutrient media and do not cause diseases in animals. The widespread use of antibiotic therapy has led to the emergence of erased and atypical forms of the disease. The microbial landscape has also changed with nonspecific inflammatory lesions of the lungs.

The conference was attended by 700 delegates. The conference was opened by the head of the USSR M3 State Economic University AV Pavlov. More than 120 reports were presented at 5 plenary and 4 sectional sessions.

January 4, 1969 marked the 75th anniversary of the birth and 50 years of the medical and scientific-pedagogical activity of the head of the Department of Radiology and Radiology of the Kazan Medical Institute named after V.I. S. V. Kurashova doctor of honey. sciences prof. Moisei Isaakovich Goldstein.