One of the most important gains in the field of brain surgery is the operative treatment of epilepsy, which received the right of citizenship only in the last 2 decades. This improvement, accompanied by an undoubted success in a whole series of cases, forced to revise the very scholarship on epilepsy, to a known degree to modify its scientific theory. Let us give in the form of provisions some of the newest views.

The authors, who worked out the question of hair sensitivity, came to a very unanimous conclusion that hair sensitivity seems to be sui generis sensitivity, which occupies an independent place among other types of skin sensitivity.

Reported on May 15, 1913 in the Kiev Physico-Medical Society. The term “dermographism” was introduced for the first time in 1899 by French authors, Barthelemy, Lamy-Féré, who proposed in this way to call the ability of the skin to be colored when drawing a line on it with some kind of solid subject.

Since the publication of the first case of spinal stiffness in 1892 by Professor Bekhterev, enough time has passed, a whole literature on this issue has appeared, and both the clinical, pathological and microscopic picture, as well as the relation of the stiffness of the spine to the spondylose Mariehizomélium, have appeared.

The question of the volume of amіotrophies observed in dorsal tabes has been of interest to clinicians since long ago. Marked back in the 30s (Cruveillier), they have long remained unknown in their origin.

Each area of knowledge, as well as in public life and politics, has its own topical issues that attract universal attention, they can be compared with outbreak of epidemics, the causative agent of which is in the air.

During the periods of hard trials and popular wages, the public initiative awakens for seething activity; everyone's attention is intensely concentrated around the ailment that threatens the well-being of the population.

It is not the first time that I have to speak out on the issue of polyneuritis and polyneuritic psychosis. I had to touch on the field of pathological anatomy and ethiology of polyneuritis (bacterium coli), poisoning with carbon dioxide, to touch on the symptomatology of multiple neuritis (the phenomenon of constant hyperkinesis), and its pathogenesis, as well as to try to approach the apparatus experimentally and experimentally with

The first indications in the literature on this disease refer to 1832, when Dr. Bell paid attention to him, and to 1866, when Leyden returned to him; but nevertheless it was Thomsen who first described it in detail, and it deservedly bears his name.

Over the past years, in the field of therapeutic knowledge, the greatest interest has aroused, no doubt, the emanation of radio. And although the main attention of researchers was paid to gouty and rheumatic diseases, there is already a sufficient number of indications in the literature regarding the influence of emanation on the nervous system, in general, and on nervous diseases, in particular.

The case, which I will allow myself to report, is of twofold interest. On the one hand, he is interesting in diagnostics, on the other hand, his interest lies in a relatively rare mental picture, observed in this disease and known under the name of Korsakov's psychosis.

In 1910, K. Goldstein described a system of fibers —fibrae arcuatae rediales — which are a direct continuation of the fibers of the posterior pillars.

In the question of the scope of surgical interventions for traumatic injuries of the spine, much remains unclear, in particular regarding the indication and time of production of the operation.

Patients whom I, with the permission of the Director of the Clinic of Nervous Diseases, Professor L.O.Darkshevich, I have the honor to introduce to the Society, suffer from diseases of the central nervous system due to the influence of air pressure, exceeding the atmospheric pressure.

Prof. Monakow in his capital work on the pathology of the brain in the chapter on muscle atrophies of cranial origin, by the way, says (p. 618) that there are few such cases described in the literature, although this kind of atrophies are not encountered so often.

One of the most difficult and at the same time important problems of modern physiology is the issue of innervations of iron with internal secretions.

I didn’t think about the reasons for the comparatively low success of the method of hypnotic suggestion in epilepsy, when the same method in the state of mind should give such quick and excellent results in other functional diseases.

In 1908, Kölpin's work appeared in the literature under the title “about premature dementia and especially about his paranoid form” and thus this term first appeared, but the psychological study of this form of the disease was first submitted by V. I. Rudnev

The patient, whom I have the honor to introduce to you today, already in the second time in the course of his relatively short life — he is 16 years old — is the subject of scientific discussion.

Patient K., 27 years old, was admitted to the Clinic of Nervous Diseases on September 7, 1912, the patient comes from an ordinary peasant family, family diseases in her family are not marked.

It would seem that after numerous and detailed works on this issue, it would be superfluous to draw the attention of readers to him, since there is a solid monograph by A. A. Kornilov and the dissertation of S. Margulis in Russian.

If, in relation to tendon reflexes, we can consider at the present time the question sufficiently clarified in its main parts, then the same cannot be said about skin reflexes.

Studying the centrofugal dorsal root fibers and their cellular groups in the spinal cord, I had to perform two experiments with the re-cutting of the anterior roots.

Professor Wassermann has been appointed director of the Kaiser Wilheims Institute of Experimental Therapy in Dahlem’е. (Review of Psychiatry No. 3). - The Medical Council of the city of Moscow recognized it necessary to build the third Psychiatric Hospital for 1500 beds with its subsequent expansion.