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translator and editor are connected with the newl^' equipped medical 

 department of the University of Minnesota. That the student of anatomy 

 at this institution may now avail himself of the ripest fruit of German 

 scholarship is a matter of congratulation to alumni of that institution, 

 who, like the writer, recall a very different state of things. 



The book itself is familiar to students of neurology in the earlier 

 edition. The improvements introduced in the second edition are im- 

 portant, and in most, though not all, respects it represents fairly the 

 present state of our knowledge. The translator and editor are to be 

 congratulated on their share in the work. The originally clear style is 

 rendered into perspicuous English with little of the awkwardness often 

 attending a translation. It is a wholesome symptom that in descriptions 

 involving" direction the reformed terminology is employed, and we may 

 soon hope to escape from the ambiguous " back," " above" and "inward " 

 of anthropotomy. 



The figures, which are numerous and excellently adapted to the 

 purpose, sufiler somewhat in reproduction; but there is, perhaps, a 

 decided gain in the fact that the original German terms are printed /'// 

 situ, preventing ambiguity and affording an opportunity for becoming 

 familiar with the indispensable nomenclature in its mother tongue. A 

 few, like Fig. 83, are useless by reason of careless neglect of reference 

 lines. Many w^ho consult the work will regret its brevity, but these will 

 not be those for whom it has obviously been written — medical students. 

 The book is a text-book, and we must admire the self-control exercised 

 by the author in omitting doubtful points, even where he himself is per- 

 sonally interested in a militant theory. One thing we greatly miss; a 

 detailed description of a few of the modern technical methods would 

 greatly extend the value of the work for Americans who have no hand- 

 book of neurological technique. We hope the next edition may be pro- 

 vided with an appendix containing sufficiently minute technical recipes 

 and directions. 



It would be easy to point out omissions and cases wliere the author's 

 statements conflict with the results of recent investigation, but in a 

 science which is advancing as rapidly as the present one this is inev- 

 itable, and something must be granted to private judgment. If the 

 treatment of the cephalic cranial nerves is less satisfactory than other 

 portions, the cause is not far to seek in the nature of the subject. On 

 the whole, there is no other work which occupies this important field so 

 satisfactorily. 



Myoclonus. 



While strictly beyond our limits, the recent pathological work of 

 Unverricht(^) may be mentioned as a model of thoroughness and dis- 

 crimination in an exceedingly difterent realm. The disease known as 



I Unverricht, H., " Die Myoclonic," Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deutiche, 1891. 



