Epilepsy: Its Pathology and Treatment

The essay on Epilepsy, to which was awarded the prize by the Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique, Dr. Hare has published in the Physicians' and Students' Ready Reference series. Like most prize essays, the work is mainly based upon the observations of others, and in some sections seems to lack that spontaneity and coherence found in the original work of an independent investigator. Not that we wish to suggest that Dr. Hare has not himself done good work, the results of which are incorporated in the text of the book ; but, in order to obtain statistics dealing with cases in large numbers, it is necessary to mass together the results obtained by many observers. Dr. Hare has carefully consulted all that