AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION OF GREAT VALUE TO THE MEDICAL 



AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS. 



SPINAL CONCUSSION: 



Surgically Considered as a Cause of Spinal Injury, and Neurolo^i.- 



cally Restricted to a Certain Symptom Group, for 



which is Suggested the Designation 



ERICHSEN'S DISEASE, AS ONE FORM OF THE TRAUMATIC NEUROSES. 



S. V. CLEVKNQER, M.D., 



CONSULTING PHYSICIAN REESE AND ALEXIAN HOSPITALS; LATE PATHOLOGIST COUNTY INSANE ASYLUM, 

 CHICAGO; MEMBER OF NUMEROUS AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES; COLLABORATOR 

 AMERICAN NATURALIST, ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST, JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY AND 

 PSYCHIATRY, JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES ; AUTHOR OF "COM- 

 PARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY," "ARTISTIC ANATOMY," ETC. 



For more than twenty years this subject has occasioned bitter con- 

 tention in law courts, between physicians as well as .attorneys, and in 

 that time no work has appeared that reviewed the entire field judicially 

 until Dr. Clevenger's book was written. It is the outcome of five years 1 

 special study and experience in legal circles, clinics, hospital and privnte 

 practice, in addition to twenty years' labor as a scientific student, writer, 

 and teacher. 



The literature of Spinal Concussion has been increasing of late years 

 to an unwieldy shape for the gem-nil student, and Dr. CleVenger luis in this 

 work arranged and reviewed all that has been done by observers since 

 the days of Erichsen and those who preceded him. The. different and 

 sometimes antagonistic views of many authors are fully given from the 

 writings of Erichsen. Page, Oppenheim, Erb, Westphal, Abercrombie, 

 Sir Astley Cooper, Bo} r er, Charcot, Ley den, Rigler. Spitzkn. Putnam. 

 Knapp, Dana, and many other European and American students of the 

 subject. The small, but important, work of Oppenheim, of the Berlin 

 Universit}-, is fully translated, and constitutes a chapter of Dr. Cleven- 

 ger's book, and reference is made wherever discussions occurred in 

 American medico-legal societies. 



There are abundant illustrations, particularly for Electro-diagnosis, 

 and to enable a clear comprehension of the anatomical and pathological 

 relations. 



The Chapters are : 1. Historical Introduction ; II. Erichsen on 

 Spinal Concussion ; III. Page on Injuries of the Spine and Spinal Cord; 

 IV. Recent Discussions of Spinal Concussion ; Y. Oppenheim on Trau- 

 matic Neuroses ; VI. Illustrative Cases from Original and all other 

 Sources; VII. Traumatic Insanity; VIII. The Spinal Column; IX. 

 Symptoms; X. Diagnosis; XI. Pathology: XII. Treatment; XIII. 

 Medico-legal Considerations. 



Other special features consist in a description of modern methods 

 of diagnosis by Electricity, a discussion of the controversy concerning 

 hysteria, and the author's original pathological A'iew that the lesion is 

 one involving the spinal sympathetic nervous system. In this latter 

 respect entirely new ground is taken, and the diversity of opinion con- 

 cerning the functional and organic nature of the disease is afforded a 

 basis for reconciliation. 



Ever;/ Physician and Lawyer should own this work. 



In one handsome Royal Octavo Volume of nearly 400 pages, with 

 Thirty Wood-Engravings. Net price, in United States and Canada, 

 $2.50, post-paid ; in Great Britain, Us. 3d. ; in France, 15 fr. 



(F. A. DAVIS. Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa.. U.S.A.) 



