Electro-Encephalography: An Aid to Diagnosis

The attitude of the medical practitioner to pliysiolog} is necessarily utilitarian and his familiarity with the various branches of the subject varies with their usefulness, not, as a cynic would suggest, with their simplicity. It is not surprising, therefore, that electrophysiology, though attracting great academic attention, is the least familiar of laboratory studies, for until recently the electro-cardiogram was the only application of the young and lively science whose doyen in this country is Professor Adrian of Cambridge. It is a