[The treatment of atypical manias with finlepsin-retard].

The article presents results of clinical trial of finlepsine-retard. Objectivized parameters characterizing the time course of psychopathologic symptoms were studied in certain concentrations of finlepsine and beta-endrofin in blood serum. Atypical maniac states do not easily respond to therapies but finlepsine-retard gives the modern psychopharmacotherapy a new horizon.

[Suppurative meningitis in adults due to rare species of the causative agent].

Altogether 20 patients with purulent meningitis caused by agents of rare species were observed. Difficulties in etiological diagnosis and the severity of a clinical course were noted. In most cases this disease developed in persons with associated diseases.