Nervous and Mental Diseases of Children

Reichard. Defective children, their nature, care, and training are to-day the subject of scientific thought and experiment. A large and ever growing literature bears striking testimony to the interest in this work shown by medical men and alienists. Germany, more than any other country, has comprehended the diversified character of the problem; and under each of the numerous rubrics of defective children sense defects, juvenile delinquents, mental arrest, and the varied neuroses common to the young?German psychologists have made notable contributions. Professor Theodore Ziehen, now of the University of Berlin and formerly at Jena, is well and favorably known to students of physiological psychology and psychiatry and his recent monographs on the nerv-