Literary Notices. li 
ulated during ten years of observation upon neurasthenia with a view 
to adding to our knowledge of the nature and treatment. The titles of 
the leading chapters are as follows: La sensation de fatigue; L’appa- 
reil circulatoire chez les neurasthéniques; Les troubles du sommeil; 
Les troubles digestifs; Les troubles de l’excrétion urinaire et de la 
nutrition; L’asthénie génitale; L’état mental neurasthénique; Patho- 
génie générale ; Traitement. 
Grasset’s Manual of Diagnosis.’ 
This is the third of a useful set of brief manuals which Dr. Gras- 
SET has published in the series Les Actualites Medicales for the clinician. 
The first is devoted to clinical anatomy of the nerve centers, the sec- 
ond to diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord, and the final issue to 
diagnosis of diseases of the brain. He discusses the symptomology of 
the sensori-motor apparatus, the mechanisms of orientation and speech 
and the encephalic apparatus of circulation, nutrition, respiration and 
secretion. Diseases of hearing, taste and smell are passed over in 
silence. There are several very convenient diagrams and tables. 
OUR pase 
Saunders’ Medical Hand-Atlases.? 
In this Atlas the author has portrayed an instructive section of 
medicine which is usually extremely difficult of mastery by students 
and practitioners. The descriptive text comprises some 200 pages in 
six parts, devoted to (1) the Morphology of the Nervous System, (2) 
Development and Structure of the Nervous System, (3) Anatomy and 
Physiology of the more important Nervous Pathways, (4) General Pa- 
thology and Treatment, (5) Special Pathology and .Treatment, (6) 
Autopsy Technique. While the text is rather too condensed to serve 
alone as introductory text-book for medical classes, the plates will serve 
1 Diagnostic des Maladies de l’Encéphale, par le Docteur GRASSET, profes- 
seur declinique médicale a1’Université de Montpellier. 1 vol. in-16 de 96 
pages, avec 6 figures, cartonné, fr. 50. (Librairie J.-B. Bailliére et fils, 19, rue 
Hautefeuille, Paris, 1901.) 
4 Atlas and Epitome of the Nervous System and Its Diseases. By PRo- 
FESSOR Dr. Cur. JAkon of Erlangen. From the Second Revised German Edstion. 
Edited by EDWARD D. FisHER, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Nervous 
System, University and Bellevue Medical College, New York. With 81 plates 
and copious text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., Igor. 
Cloth, $3.50 net. 
