HERRICK'S "AN INTRODUCTION TO NEUROLOGY"* 



HENRY H. DONALDSON 



During the past twenty-five years the clinical neurologists 

 have been losing faith in neuropathology as a prime method for 

 the solution of their problems. Perhaps in the first place they 

 were misled into hoping too much from this method. Be that 

 as it may, there is now something of a tendency " to throw out 

 the baby with the bath " and to reduce to a minimum the ana- 

 tomical data which are utilized. 



The anatomy of the nervous system both normal as well as 

 pathological has suffered from this shift of interest. Of course, 

 in this case, as always, there is some reason for the present state 

 of affairs. In the first instance anatomical relations have been 

 over-interpreted and further during the last two decades the 

 finer anatomy of the nervous system has been so assiduously culti- 

 vated that the great mass of data collected was in danger of 

 becoming a burden unless the facts could be classified and strung 

 on a stout physiological thread. 



The move toward this solution has been slow, and in the mean- 

 time the gap between neuro-anatomy and clinical neurology has 

 remained only too evident. 



Herrick's " Introduction to Neurology " helps to bridge this 

 gap in a very satisfactory manner, for it presents the anatomy 

 of the human nervous system in its physiological relations. 



The book contains 137 illustrations, mainly Schemata, with 

 full legends. Of the 338 pages of text, 45 pages are in fine print 

 — used for the presentation of details — and 39 pages are given 

 to a glossary-index containing concise definitions of all of the 

 newer technical terms. Thus, within the remaining 254 pages 

 on which the illustrations also appear, the author has succeeded 

 in presenting the main facts of neurology as they stand to-day. 

 This means compact writing. The book is avowedly an intro- 



* Herrick, C. Judson. An Introduction to Neurology. W. B. Saunders Co., 

 Phil, and London, 1915, p. 355. 



