Diseases of the Nervous System

The first object is kept carefully in view throughout the book, and to compass it two chapters are devoted to the method of taking a case and the modes of examination employed. The author regards the difficulty of examining cases of nervous disease as much increased by the regional or anatomical mode of examination, and strongly advises the importance of using in all cases, except where the cranial nerves or their nuclei are concerned, the more physiological method of takiug the different systems, as motor and sensory, and following each of them throughout the whole body. This principle is well worked out, and is one of the reasons why the book gives such a lucid and practical account of this rather difficult branch of medicine. The brief sketch given of the structure and function of the nervous system is very good, especially the account of the functions of the cortex cerebri, to our knowledge of which the staff of Dr. Beevor's hospital the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic?have contributed so much. An explanation with diagram is given of Golgi s and Hamon-y-Cajal's recent researches into the axis cylinder and the destination of its fibrils. The organic diseases