ACTIVITIES OF THE USSR ALL-UNION SOCIETY OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGISTS

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• Publication Date: May 21, 1954
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ACTIVITIES OF THE USSR ALL-UNION SOCIETY OF PATHOPHYSIOLCGISTS
Meditsinski Rabotnik Vol XVII, No 16 1240
Moscow, 2 Feb 195 ( ) Prof A. D. Adn, ('orr Mem,
Arad Med Sci USSR
The plenary session of the dminist mttve Board of the All-Union Society
of Pathophysiologists took place recently at Moscow. The practice of conducting
plenary sessions during the winter vacations has proved advantaceous to the work
of this society. At these session, the heads of the chairs of pathophysiology
of medical institutes exchange information on work done during the past year.
They also discuss methods of instructien~ and report on scientific research done
at the institutes. In the work of the plenary session which was held this year,
more than 150 pa thophysiologists from Moscow, Leningrad, K'ev, Kharkov, Tash-
kent, Kuybyshev, Sverdlovsk, Odessa end other cities took part.
The histor_cel decisions of the 19th Party Congress, xhich determined that
beenpreflected~extennivelylinpthe~scieatifi~ureseurchodonevbet medicine, have
Among reports presented at the plenar,~ session e Y pathophysiologists.
the problem of the investigation of neural re;;ulatigonaofnorganicafunctions as a
physiological means of defense of the organism against various pathogenic effects
of the environment, in the li~,ht of Pavlov's physiological teachings. Zn many
reports, problems of .nfection and immunity were discussed. In other reports,
information was given on experimental reproduction of various diseases on animal
models, on the investigation of the mechanism of the action of various health-
resort factors, etc.
A number of cor-~unications dealt with the role of the cortex and subcortex
in processes of adaptation and of compensation of distrubed functions (V. S.
Gal kin, N. N. Zayko), experimental therapy (N, N, Sirotinin, M. P. Derevyagin),
and problems of nerve regulation in immunogenesis (A. N. Gordiyenko, G. V. Pesh-
kovskiy, M. I. Undritsev). The reports were widely discussed and supplemented
by Participants at the meeting,. The discussions have shown that the organization
of the work of pa thophyslologists, on the basis of the deci.stona of the joint
session of the Academy of Sciences USSR and the Arade~gy of tdedical Sciences USSR,
proceeds successihlly. They have also shown that Pavlov's physiological teachings
have become a firm basis for the development of Soviet pathological physiology.
At the snme time, it has been brought out thnt the ;amplified nnc: vLlgarized
application of some postulates of contemporary medicine has led, at present, to
the need for various corrections and further precision.
In his report entitled "The Role of Hi~~her Divisions of the Central Nervous
System in Processes of Adaptation, Protection, and Compensation," V. S. Gallon
and the participants who discussed this report subjected to criticism the simpli-
fied and vulgsrized concept of anesthesia [literally, narcosis] as a universal
therapeutic method, wl~!ch exerts only beneficial action on the organism under
various pathological conditions. In the opinion of the majority of the partici-
pants in the discussion, anesthesia is definitely harmful at times when it is
necessary to reinforce regeneration processes and other protective mechanisms.
Interesting dots were presented by N. N. Zayko of Odessa in his report en-
titled 'Dystrophy Processes in Traumatic Injuries of Sensory Nerves and Compen-
sa;,ion Phenomena in These Processes." N. N. Zayko expressed the assumption that
the absence of innervation in the lens and the impossibility of positive trophic
reflexes, which is due to this absence c? innervation, explains the greater suscep-
tibility of the lens to injuries, as compared with the cornea. For that reason,
Zayko stated, t somatic cataracts develop after eye injuries.
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?? ~r~?v/, correspundinr~ member of the .Acn,l:rrl,r of S~i~nccs
Ukr inian SSR, rli-cuesed the utiliznt'on of a h':;h mountain cl'mate r,s a factor
which affects processes of the int^r?action of the cortex ~,r'th the subcortex in
srh'_zonhrenia. The work in quest':,n 's on 3a experimental thernp