Medical History and Medical Care

that the nursing sisters of a French asylum recognized that a patient's behaviour seemed to be that of an epileptic, but she does notfall. 'Les religieuses me disent: "elle est mechante comme une epileptique, mais elle ne tombe pas." ' The revision has taken into account such concepts as psychomotor epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy, 'which were as yet rare or non-existent at the writing of the first edition'. This has added to the value of the book, without detracting from the author's aim 'to let the past speak for itself and to bring it near to the understanding of the modem reader'. JOHN CULE