A Treatise on Nervous Diseases; their Symptoms and Treatment.

Abstract

The author disarms hostile criticism by the statement in his preface that the book is not written for specialists. The general introductory chapter on methods of examination in nervous diseases, together with a consideration of certain general conditions common to many forms of nervous lesion is well written. The general classification made by the author is: 1. Diseases of the Brain; 2. Diseases of the Spinal Cord; 3. Diseases of the Peripheral and Sympathetic Nerves; Unclassified. The anatomy of the brain is illustrated by fifteen figures taken from Ecker, Wernicke, Erb and Ferrier, some of the drawings being modified in reproduction. The arrangements of the relation of the text to the drawings is unfortunately such that the combined impression obtained from them is much less clear than it both ought and might be. The anatomy of the cord is illustrated by Hammond's colored plate, modified from Flechsig, and leaves nothing