Tumours of the Nervous Acusticus

This brilliant and sumptuously produced monograph deals with 29 histologically certified cases of tumours of the cerebello-pontile angle, involving the VIII (acoustic) nerve. It illustrates' the extreme specialisation that has taken place in cerebral surgery of recent years, largely the work of the late Sir Victor Horsley at the National Hospital for Paralysed and Epileptic in London. Dr. Harvey Cushing has done much original work siuce 1903 on this subject, and in this book gives a very interesting and scientific account of acoustic neuromata and their diagnosis and treatment. Sir Charles Bell gave the first clinical account of these cases in 1830; but the most remarkable and accurate account was