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and the present incumbent is J. DEJERINE/ who for many 

 years has been one of the strongest neurologists of France. 

 He is the author of a remarkable "Semiologie des 

 Maladies du Systeme Nerveux"; with Mme. Dejerine 

 has written a great Anatomy of the Nervous System; 

 and has published innumerable valuable papers. During 

 the school year he gives two clinics a week. That of 

 Tuesday is more informal, more directly practical, in- 

 volving the presentation of more patients without ex- 

 haustive consideration of any subject. The Friday 

 lecture generally is devoted to more fundamental, sys- 

 tematic treatment of some disease or problem, and the 

 same subject may run through several lectures. The 

 great wealth of clinical material makes these lectures 

 extraordinary. With this service is a large out-patient 

 department. 



At the Salpetriere is also another immense service prac- 

 tically devoted to nervous diseases. The head is Pierre 

 MARIE, perhaps the most celebrated neurologist of 

 France. Only to catalogue his notable contributions to 

 neuro-pathology would require a small book. Perhaps 

 he is best known from his work on acromegaly, various 

 aspects of apoplexy, scoliose rhizomelique, and aphasia; 

 but there is scarcely a phase of organic disease of the 

 nervous system which he has not touched to illuminate. 

 He delivers no formal lectures but once a week has a 

 "consultation d'externe," or dispensary service, where 

 he holds an extemporaneous clinic. The patients are 

 examined under his eye, and he makes diagnoses, com- 

 ments and explanations. Of necessity the work is rapid 

 and hence rather superficial; but the master exhibits a 

 combination of erudition, perspicacity, and perspicuity, 



1 [We regret to have to chronicle his decease, which occurred after 

 this chapter went to the printer. Presumably he will be succeeded 

 by Marie. AUTHORS.] 



