Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Archibald Church,
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Nervous and Mental Diseases. By ARCHIBALD CHURCH, M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence in the Northwestern University Medical School, etc., Chicago; and FREDERICK PETERSON, M. D., Ex-President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy, Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, etc., New York. Sixth edition, thoroughly revised. (Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, xgo8.) The sixth the preceding incorporated has increased The chapter edition of this work presents the same general appearance ones. Dr. Church has carefully revised his section and many additions which bring the subject matter up to date the whole by twenty pages. on Localization in the Cerebral Cortex has been re-written as has and soas to includethe resultsof recentresearches.Meningitis achieved such evidently brilliantThe paragraph on the was written before the results. thetreatment of Cerebrospinal use of Flexnerâs serumA new chapter on Psychasthenia has been added and expresses adequately more recent conceptions of this disease group. The illustrations, among which several new ones appear, remain as before, valuable, and a pleasing feature of the book. This section as a whole is excellently written and deserves high recommendation as a text-book. The wouldsection on Neurology occupies over two-thirds of the