[Experience in organizing tetanus prevention]. / Opyt organizatsii profilaktiki stolbniaka.

Mass immunization against tetanus has been organized in the Livny district of the Orel region. The centralized depository of the registration cards for all the vaccinees has been created at the reception department of the central district hospital. The continuity in the activities of the institutions for prophylaxis and treatment has been established. The immune stratum of the population has reached 80%. The frequency of the injections of tetanus antitoxin in connection with wounds decreased from 96% to 39.2%; as a result the consumption of tetanus antitoxin dropped 2.5-fold. No tetanus cases were registered in the district during the last 4 years.

[Healing of suppurative wounds after heteroperitoneal, gauze and resin-rinse methods of drainage]. / Regeneratsiia gnoinykh ran pri geterobriushinnoi, marlevom i rezinovom drenazhakh

It is shown that preserved parietal peritoneum of the cattle shows necrolytic and dehydrating properties, contributes to prompt wound clearance from fibrinopurulent exudate, thus shortening the time of the phase of hydration, and as a week stimulator it stimulates regenerative processes, contributing to accelerated dehydration phase and healing of the wound with formation of a tender scar without any signs of inflammation, the regeneration of the activated epidermis being more perfect. Moreover, the metabolic processes in the wound are actiyated, that is manifested by a more intensive. Feulgen reaction for DNA, rapid accumulation of RNA in cells and glycoproteids and glycogen--in intercellular substance. Gauze and rubber drainages fail to possess such properties.