Clinical Studies in Epilepsy

Mr. X and that of the author. The history of Mr. X has been kept by himself with painstaking accuracy and much insight for about thirty years. The clinical value of these remarkable observations is greatly increased by a report upon them from that amazing genius, Hughlings Jackson. In this connection we may be permitted to observe how entirely we support the author's contention that it is discreditable to British neurologists that the invaluable work of Hughlings Jackson should still lie buried in medical journals, whereby much of it is rendered inaccessible to the majority of the present generation of doctors. The author's own case is one of severe migraine which, to all who accept Hughlings Jackson's view of its nosology, must be classified as a sensory epilepsy. We are sorry to note that Dr. Fraser has nothing but scorn for the psycho-analytical conception of idiopathic epilepsy, and characterises the psychological interpretation evolved by Pierce Clark