Publications du Progres Medical, Paris, 14 Rue des Carmes.

Abstract

<b>"Clinical and Therapeutical Researches on Epilepsy, Hysteria, Idiocy and Hydrocephalus."</b>The report of the service at the Bicêtre during the year 1893, byBourneville, etc. The Bicêtre Alms-house (<i>hospice</i>) has long been considered one of the most interesting of its class in the world. It is situated on an elevation about two miles from the Barrière de Fontainebleau, and is said originally to have been a castle built by the Bishop of Winchester in 1204, (Stewart). The Bicêtre during the Revolution was used as a prison, and some fifty years ago was used as a temporary detention prison for convicts. The old well at Bicêtre was said to be more than two hundred feet deep and had a diameter of twenty feet. Fifty years ago its surgeon was Malgaigne and its physicians Voisin, Rochoux, Leuret, Horteloup, Moreau and Archambault. The Bicêtre of to-day has much enlarged scope. The department for