I. Gelman. Essential Hypertension. 1927. Publication of Moszdravotdel. 197 pp. Pr. 2 r., 60 к.

The author's general point of view on hypertension is that while there are many causal moments, the mechanism of its origin is the same, namely that the changes characterizing hypertension go through the vaso-regulating apparatus (central or peripheral) and lead to disturbances of active and passive vascular functions (p. 11). Thus the author puts forward in the genesis of hypertension not any patho-anatomical changes of blood vessels, but a purely functional point, a deviation or shift of the whole blood circulation apparatus from its normal state, expressed by the increase of the active state (tonus) of blood vessels, depending on the corresponding deviation in the vasomotor regulatory system. The author consistently holds this general point of view through all his work and proves it both by his numerous observations and by critical analysis of equally numerous views and theories of other authors, who tried to put under the concept of hypertension one or another pathological and anatomical basis, first of all - vascular sclerosis, and then kidney diseases, poisoning by those or other metabolic products, etc.).