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familiar with rare types as well as classical clinical 

 pictures. 



Bicetre (Hospice de) is an infirmary for men, corre- 

 sponding to the Salpetriere (though not so conveniently 

 located), and is second only to the latter in wealth of 

 neurological material. In the nature of things the cases 

 are mostly chronic. Here patients are kept and observed, 

 and here they come to autopsy. At Bicetre the visitor 

 will find many a patient who has served as text for a 

 dissertation; he will recall his picture seen in a medical 

 journal, and later he will read of the post mortem find- 

 ings. Prof. A. SOUQUES, who was preceded by Dejerine 

 and Pierre Marie, now has the choice service. As a rule 

 he gives no regular course of instruction, but one may 

 always make the ward visits with him and will be richly 

 repaid. He is one of the ablest and best informed of the 

 Paris school, as well as one of the most approachable, 

 and he has a collection of patients not to be duplicated. 

 Their careful study is well worth the time of any neurol- 

 ogist. 



In the same institution is a huge service for the feeble- 

 minded (idiots and imbeciles), where BOURNEVILLE 

 made his remarkable pioneer studies and whence issued 

 his valuable detailed reports. 



L 'Hopital de la Pitie should next be mentioned, because 

 here is BABINSKI, universally known from the reflex 

 called by his name; certainly one of the most original, 

 astute, and forceful of living neurologists. He seems to 

 combine Gallic brilliance with the methodical thorough- 

 ness of the German, and by some is considered the great- 

 est French neurologist. Having true scientific insight, 

 the fruit of his labor is rarely without value. Deprived 

 of his contributions on the reflexes, on spinal and brain- 

 stem localization, on cerebellar disorders, hysteria and 

 many other things, modern neurology would be far from 



