On Certain Peculiarities of the Knee-Jerk in Sleep in a Case of Terminal Dementus. By William Noyes, M. D.. Assistant Physician and Pathologist, McLean Asylum. Reprinted from The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. IV, No. 3
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monographic work of this kind it would have been much more to the point, to say the least, had part of it been given to a consideration of the rationale of disordered speech-phenomena. to the physiological principles underlying the same, and to the physical reasons for the pathological mechanism of speech in the special forms of insanity. It is a pleasure to turn from such criticism as seems natural, if not inevitable in a review, to the more agreeable task of according a full mneasure of praise to this new and interesting book. There is displayed in it a rare clinical faculty for the original study of symptoms. It is indeed refreshing to find a medical writer who decidedly has le caurage de see opinions, and who boldly publishes what he clinically observes, even though he search in vain for something similar in the literature of his subject.In the first part of the bookthe alterations whole of class intonation, of aphasic of thethe descriptionsof echolalia, troubles in ofof the changesverbigeration, insane, thein speechof rhymingrate,nature by a skillful hand. En the second part of the book thedefects and peculiarities of the writings of the insane are likewise treated in