If at the present time the Imperial Kazan University includes in the number of its educational and auxiliary institutions in the Faculty of Medicine a university clinic for mental illnesses, built and equipped in accordance with the modern requirements of hygiene and psychiatric knowledge, then this person or one person is not a single person. , but should be considered as a productive completion of work and aspirations of a number of persons.

Among the numerous psychopathic syndromes or temporary symptom complexes known to us, the so-called lingering affective states deserve our attention, both because of their practical importance and because of purely theoretical interest: we are dealing here with mental illnesses of undoubtedly psychogenic origin.

Studying the physiology of the stomach and intestines of a dog, outside of digestion, when the one and the other are completely free from the contents, and therefore, as was believed before, do not carry any work of Professor V. N. Boldyrev came across a number of interesting facts that broke this so widespread view and showed a harmonious picture of the uninterrupted work of the digestive tracts and glands, when all food had already left the stomach and duodenum and the digestive secretion had completely stopped.

Experimental study on dogs from the pharmacological laboratory of the Imperial Kazan University, Professor V.I.Boldyrev. At the suggestion of prof. VN Boldyrev, we carried out experiments to find out whether there is a fluctuation in the number of white blood balls, depending on the periodic work of the digestive apparatus of extra-digestion.

In 1913, the work of Dr. PP Podyapol'skiy "On the use of hypnotic suggestion in epilepsy" appeared. The method given by the author seemed to me too simple and easy to be neglected in the treatment of this disease, which to this day almost defies our usual means.

The reaction of Abderhalden has now gained so much application and so much fame that I consider myself entitled in my short message only to briefly indicate its essence, methodology and field of application.

The etiology of most mental illnesses has not yet been clarified, and to explain the occurrence of a whole series of mental illnesses, we must resort to probable assumptions, often poorly substantiated.

In 1902, professor Boldyrev established the periodic activity of the digestive apparatus outside of digestion on dogs; later he was confident that this periodic activity exists in other animals, including humans.

On April 17, 1914, the following reports were heard: A. A. Butenko: "A case of acromegaly with mental disorder"; TI Yudin: “About eugenics and eugenic movement”.

The Council of Professors of the Psychoneurological Institute decided to provide the Pirogov neurosurgical clinic at the disposal of the Red Cross and the city-wide organization. The Council also decided to make certain deductions from the fee in favor of the hospital of higher educational institutions, open sanitary courses for the students and students of the Institute, and also invite the Ministry of Public Education to use the Institute's chemical laboratory for the manufacture of medicines.

Chaired by Prof. Osipov under the secretary of Voroshilov. Attended by: Pervushin, Favorskiy, Donskov, Sorokovikov, Skuridin, Bolberg, Lopukhin, Bondarev, Nikolskaya, Belyaev, Chalusov, Baklushinskiy and others.