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of the cortex. Where shall he get it if not in a modern book on men- 
tal diseases? The anatomy he can get treated well enough in his hand- 
books of anatomy and physiology. But where is the psychology writ- 
ten by the physician of experience and for the needs of the physician ? 
It is to be hoped that a new edition will meet this need. 
The special discussion of mental diseases follows time-honored 
principles, mainly the plan of Krarrt—Esinc. The refreshing breeze 
that has been going through psychiatry, since the stimulating, though 
daring, publication of KRAEPELIN’S last editions, has had no effect on 
BERKLEY. He leaves the practitioner in ignorance of what most of us 
younger alienists deem to be the most important purpose of our work : 
to putin evidence the problematic feature of disease-entities unless 
they mean something from the point of view of etiology, course of 
development of symptoms complexes and nature of the termination, a 
standpoint admirably sketched by Dr. Aucust Hocnu in the American 
Journal of Insanity, October, 1900. Instead of that we get the tra- 
ditional melancholias and manias and states of mental enfeeblement 
put together because they are ‘‘insanities without ascertainable altera- 
tion of the brain substance.”’ Then comes the group ‘‘consecutive to” 
organic lesion of the cerebral substance, progressive paralysis, syphilitic 
insanity, the psychoses of old age, those following gross organic brain 
disease, the intoxication insanities (alcohol, opium, cocaine, and rarer 
poisons) and the insanities following bacterial, toxalbumic and autotoxic 
poisoning. In this chapter we find all those things put together in 
which the author would like to find an organic lesion. Puerperal insan- 
ities are treated here, although so many of them belong into other quar- 
ters and are only accidentally puerperal. 
The third group is that of the psychic degenerate. What is gained 
by stamping all the forms treated here as degenerates is very difficult 
to see. BERKLEY might have been warned by the reserve of MaGNnan, 
who is the protector par excellence of the concept of degeneracy in 
insanity, even if he himself has never found an exception from his own 
rule in his practice. ‘The chapter on periodic insanity abounds with 
similar claims of knowledge of the bearing of heredity. The psychoses 
accompanying the constitutional neuroses (neurasthenia is treated 
especially fully), imbecility and the psychoses of childhood take up 
considerable space. . 
To every part a long bibliographic list is added. All the articles 
show more than most books in English an effort to do justice to some 
of the literature. With all that, the articles make us more familiar with 
the scope of lectures than with the problems that confront one ina 
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