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Hemiplegia, next to aphasia, is the subject in cHnical 

 neurology to which Wernicke and his pupils have paid most 

 attention with the interesting results known to all actively work- 

 ing neurologists. Following upon the researches of the Char- 

 cot school, Wernicke's studies have gone far to extend our 

 knowledge of the exact relations in that particular paralysis. 

 Especially as concerns the residual paralysis during convales- 

 cence from hemiphlegia are the studies of Wernicke and his 

 pupil LuDWiG Mann of importance. 



The latter part of Wernicke's life was given over almost 

 wholly to an attempt to found a scientific symptomatology of 

 the psychoses, and it will generally be admitted, we think, that 

 his greatest work is his 'Text-book of Psychiatry', which is 

 wholly original, and widely divergent in the handling from that 

 of any other psychiatrist, living or dead. Wernicke in this treat- 

 ise has made a book which will serve as a foundation for much 

 of the psychiatric investigation of the future. Though written for 

 students and physicians — the book bears the humble title of 

 'Grundriss — it makes profitable reading for even the most ex- 

 perienced alienist. Indeed, as Spenser is sometimes called the 

 poet's poet, it would not be surprising if Wernicke came to be 

 known as the psychiatrist's psychiatrist. He was an observer 

 rather than an experimenter but those who knew him say that 

 his talent for observation seemed at times to amount almost to 

 divination. 



Take him all in all, Carl Wernicke was a man, whose like 

 neurology and psychiatry will scarcely soon see again. He 

 occupies a place among the few — with Pinel, with Charcot, 

 with Griesinger and with Meynert. 



LEWELLYS F. BARKER. 



