[Prevention in geriatric medicine].

The authors point out the actual relation of prevention in geriatric medicine, and specific traits of prevention and its significance in the care of the aged. They deal with circumstances which compel the necessity to think in categories of prevention also in geriatry. They draw attention to the significance of risk factors in the aged and preventive interventions which are currently preferred.

[Rehabilitation of respiration in outbreaks of bronchial superinfection].

The authors analized the effect of reeducation on patients with an exacerbated bronchial stasis and mucostasis. The group studied was composed of 103 patients suffering from chronic bronchitis, with or without pulmonary emphysema, bronchial asthma and bronchiectasis. Examination methods and breathing reeducation methods were briefly reported.