LITERARY NOTICES. 



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usually overlooked by students of Hebrew 

 history. 



Altogether the book is an exceedingly in- 

 teresting and useful study ; and the thought 

 presented strikes out a fruitful and an un- 

 usual line of comparison. The author is 

 never dogmatic, but his spirit is always that 

 of the careful student and the scientific in- 

 quirer. As a literary production the work 

 is admirable; the style is clear, the diction 

 elegant and finished, and the reader's inter- 

 est is well sustained to the end. 



Paralyses, Cerebral, Bulbar, and Spinal. 



A Manual of Diagnosis for Students and 



Practitioners. By H. Charlton Bastian. 



New York : D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 671. 



Price, $4.50. 



This treatise is intended as an aid to the 

 student or medical practitioner when brought 

 face to face with cases of paralysis of dif- 

 ferent kinds. Instead of setting forth in 

 the fullest manner all that is known of the 

 several forms of the disease, as may be done 

 in special treatises, the author's endeavor 

 has been throughout to facilitate diagnosis ; 

 to explain and gather up the essential points 

 to be borne in mind by the student or prac- 

 titioner when he is called upon to decide as 

 to the nature of any case of paralysis, and 

 give a prognosis concerning it. The various 

 forms of paralysis are now so numerous, 

 and so many advances have been made in 

 our knowledge in the directions of their ori- 

 gins, that some such aid to diagnosis may 

 well be looked for by those for whom this 

 work is intended. The signs of paralysis 

 of the different cranial nerves have been 

 pretty freely dealt with, because the recog- 

 nition of such paralysis, either alone or in 

 association with paralysis in other parts, is 

 often a matter of the greatest importance. 

 As a knowledge of nervous diseases of the 

 kind now looked for can not be attained 

 without something more than a superficial 

 acquaintance with the anatomy and physi- 

 ology of the spinal cord, a plenitude of de- 

 tails, especially of anatomical details, is ne- 

 cessary in such a treatise as the present one 

 is intended to be. The comprehension and 

 recollection of these details have been fa- 

 cilitated, as far as possible, by illustrations. 

 The threefold division of the subject sug- 

 gested in the title is followed in the text ; 

 and, to the sections there indicated, another 



is added on paralysis due to lesions of the 

 cranial nerves. The general course of the 

 discussion of the subject is outlined in a 

 few pages of introduction. Paralyses of 

 encephalic origin are then taken up, with 

 reference, first, to the several conditions 

 that cause them, and next to the diagnosis, 

 or the clinical considerations favoring the 

 existence of this or that causative condi- 

 tion. The pathological diagnosis is consid- 

 ered as applied, in the apoplectic stage, to 

 primary and secondary comas, and again 

 after or in the absence of an apoplectic 

 stage. Under the head of regional diagno- 

 sis are discussed the regional or localizing 

 value of special symptoms that may be as- 

 sociated with the paralysis, and the clinical 

 indications favoring the diagnosis as re- 

 ferred to lesions in parts supplied by the 

 cortical and the basal arterial systems, and 

 by the vertebral and basilar arteries, re- 

 spectively. In the sections on paralyses 

 of bulbar origin, the regional diagnosis is 

 treated with reference to the diagnostic in- 

 dications derivable from a consideration of 

 the blood -supply of the bulb. Paralyses 

 due to lesions of the cranial nerves are 

 described with reference to the particular 

 nerves involved. The pathological diagno- 

 sis of paralyses of spinal origin is described 

 with reference to extrinsic causes and in- 

 trinsic causes. In the last hundred pages, 

 full and particular accounts are given of 

 the spinal diseases associated with paraly- 

 sis, together with tabular exhibits of the 

 diseases and of their relative acuteness or 

 chronicity. 



The Butterflies op the Eastern United 

 States. By G.H. French. Philadelphia: 

 J. B. Lippincott Company. Pp. 402. 

 Price, $2. 



By " Eastern United States " is meant, 

 for the purposes of this manual, all east of 

 the western boundaries of Minnesota, Iowa, 

 Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana ; and the 

 region differs from the Atlantic province of 

 Dr. Packard by the variance between State 

 lines and a more sinuous line of elevation, 

 and by the inclusion of the whole of Flori- 

 da and the New England States and the ex- 

 clusion of all of Canada. The book appears 

 to have grown up in connection with the 

 author's class-work in the Southern Illinois 

 Normal University. It embraces a brief 



