LITERARY NOTICES. 
REVIEW OF RECENT TEXT-BOOKS OF ANATOMY AND 
PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
THIRD ARTICLE. 
Berkley’s Mental Diseases.! 
This volume dedicated to Prof. Henry M. Hurp comes from a 
well-known worker on neurological topics. He introduces the book as 
follows ‘‘ The absence from English medical literature of a comprehen- 
sive, practical work on mental diseases—one adapted to the needs of 
the busy practitioner, as well as to those of the student of psychiatry— 
has led the writer to prepare this treatise embodying a consideration of 
all the principal forms of psychical disturbance. Although it is evi- 
dent, from the intrinsic nature of the subject, that such an attempt can 
be only partially successful, it is to be hoped that the book will add 
something to the certain knowledge of the practitioners, and render more 
accessible what has been heretofore almost an unknown territory of 
medicine.” 
This note which might surprise writers like Sprrzka, BEVAN LEwIs, 
MAUDSLEY, CLOUSTON, not to mention others less favored by reputa- 
tion, invites a comparative review of modern attempts at writing on 
mental disorders. The explanation of the plan of the book is, how- 
ever, better obtained from the title, and we shall review the book as 
representing a course in psychiatry for practitioners and students. 
The book consists of three parts: 1. The anatomy and histology 
of the central nervous system, (pp. 1-50); 2. General pathology (pp. 
51-96) ; 3. The clinical forms of mental diseases (pp. 97-575). A very 
complete index is offered on pages 577-601. 
The first part is in reality a summary of some of the present 
knowledge of the cortex cerebri, its circulation, membranes, vessels 
and lympathics, neuroglia and nerve elements. 
1 A Treatise on Mental Diseases, based upon the lecture course at the Johns 
Hopkins University, 1899, and designed for the use of practitioners and stu- 
dents of medicine. By Henry J. BERKLEY, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psy- 
chiatry, the Johns Hopkins University, chief visiting physician to the City 
Insane Asylum, Baltimore. With frontispiece, lithographic plate and illustra- 
tions in the text. New York. D. Appleton & Co., 1900, 
