Pathology of the Nervous System

Dublin had never once, in his experience, turnie(d down an application or suggested a lesser sum than that recommended by the Belfast and(County AAntriimi Branch. He felt that the objective of the branich should(be a subscription of £1. Is. (olle g, uinea) from every medical practitioner in the Six Counties, a sum which would enable the Society to bring relief to many now suffering severely. The author of this hook needs no introduction to Ulster readers. He is a distinguislhed graduate of Queen's U niversity, and is recognized as a sound authority on diseases of the nerxvous system. His experience as pathologist to the Scottislh Asylums Board, nieuropathologist to the Royal Infirmnarv, E'dinburgh, aid lecturer in nieui-opathology, Edinburgh U nixversity, has provided him with exccellent opportunitis nliot only to collect the requisite material, but also to determine the needs of the student in this subject. The book is described as a student's introduction, and it embodies the courses of lectures given to the medical undergraduates and to those preparing for the examiniation for the Diploma of Psychiatry at Edinburgh University. It opens-with aIn accouint of the reactions of the nerve-cell and of the interstitial cells to disease. The consideration of these fundamental matters is more elaborate than is possible in a textbook of general pathology, anid it is one of the greatest merits of the book. The student Nvho has grasped those essential facts can approach the study of the special lesions of the nervous system inte'lligentlv. The principles of the classification of these lesions cain be readily understood, and the interpretation of their effects becomes comparatively easy. Also, in these openiing chapters, the author emphasizes the analogies which prevail between ineurological aind other somatic lesions with which the student is or should he familiar. This e(mphasis is repeated frequently throughout the 1)ook, with appropriate examples, so that the student cainnot fail to integrate the special problems of neuropathology Nvith his more ge neral experience, and that is probably more than half the battle. The third chapter is devoted to an account of the cerebro-spiinal fluid in lhealth aind disease, and a clear account is given of the causes and effects of inci-ease(d initracrainial pressure, including papillcedeina. Subsequent chapters are coincerined with v-ascular disease, acute anid chronic bacterial infections, diseases due to viruses, diseases of unknown etiology, intoxica-tions and deficiency diseases, degenerative diseases, injuries to the nervous system, tumours of …