Abstract
One who meets large numbers of undergraduates in the class room and general practitioners in consultation is often confronted with the assertion that neurology is the hardest, or at least one of the hardest, branches of scientific medicine to comprehend. Some genuine difficulties must be present in order to account for the prevalence of such an opinion. It would be absurd to assume that so many intelligent men can not grasp what to others of no greater mental capacity seems so easy of comprehension and so self-evident. The view has been expressed, and in my judgment rightly so, that for preciseness, reasonableness and scientific accuracy the teachings and findings of modern neurology give this department of medicine a rank second only to that of ophthalmology. If this view be but approximately correct, then it would seem that many intelligent men are not as capable as they appear to be, or
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