']6 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. 



De Fleury, Maurice. Manuel Pour L'Etude des Maladies Du Syst^me Ner- 

 veux. Pans, Felix Alcan, 1904. 



This work is essentially the digest of De Fleury's effort to review 

 the status of neurology after several years of special work on the neu- 

 roses. With his clearness of distinction and presentation he hoped to 

 do a valuable service to the student by putting together the notes 

 from his reading. The result is a volume of 1000 pages, beginning 

 with very full directions as to how to examine a case (pp. 1-105). This 

 is followed by a brief medical anatomy of the nervous system (pp, 

 109-216), very elementary and schematic, but filling its purpose for 

 beginners. The rest of the book is devoted to the individual diseases, 

 very concise and lucidly written. There is, of course, a great latitude 

 of personal predilections ; the chapter on neuroses is especially well 

 treated. 



As a student's manual and for rapid orientation the book deserves 

 full praise. a. m. 



Camus, Jean and Pagniez, Ph. Isolement et psychotherapie. Traite- 

 ment de I'hysterie et de la neurasthenic. Pratique de la reeducation 

 morale et physique. Preface de M. le professeur Dejerine, medecin de 

 la Salpetridre. Paris, F. Alcan, 1 904. 



For a number of years Professor Dejerine has paid attention to 

 the method of isolation and to psycho-therapeutics in hospital and pri- 

 vate practice. 



His pupils here present a work which gives on ground of 60 well 

 chosen observations the statement of therapeutics which they devel- 

 oped and extended on the ground of Dejerine's principles. After 

 four historical chapters, they discuss the isolation and the various forms 

 of its application, the rest and over-feeding, and other physical helps, 

 such as electrization and hydrotherapeutics. And after a discussion 

 of the reciprocity of physical and mental life, they enter upon hypno- 

 tism ; the comparative value of suggestion and persuasion ; the im- 

 portance of confidence and attention of the patient, and the means of 

 obtaining them ; and finally the rules for psycho-therapeutic conver- 

 sation and the principles of reeducation. 



A final chapter speaks of prophylaxis, heredity, education, and 

 the question of overwork. 



Considering the material presented, the book is an extremely valu- 

 able help in many practical and general questions concerning the neu- 

 roses. A. M. 



