Medical Intelligence

Dr. Bence Jokes lias been publishing in " The Lancet" a series of papers on this highly important and deeply interesting subject, which are worthy the attention of all psychologists. Our contemporary says :? " Dr. Golding Bird had observed cases in which excessive mental exertion has been attended by an increased elimination of the triple phosphates by the kidneys ; but Dr. Bence Jones has, we may say, proved, that in acute idiopathic inflammation of the brain, and in traumatic cerebritis, the amount of phosphates in the urine is excessive ?the phosphoric compounds in the urine of course repesenting the chemical changes going on in the phospliorized cerebral matter, in consequence of inflammatory disease. This deduction from an extensive class of facts offers a very beautiful and striking instance of the intimate relation which exists between pathology and organic chemistry."