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manifestations would have ordinarily been classified under the terms of 

 'psychic epilepsy.'" "The fourth study consists of two parts: the first 

 reviews and discusses phenomena of mental dissociation in an interest- 

 ing case of depressive delusional states ; the second gives experimental 

 data." "The fifth study is on mental dissociation observed in a case 

 presenting limited psychomotor disturbances." "The last study, that 

 of dissociated states in psychomotor epilepsy, deals with the growth 

 and development of a whole system presenting psychomotor disturb- 

 ances apparently of an epileptic character." 



"Throughout the researches the processes both of disintegration 

 and synthesis are followed out. Great stress is laid on reassociation, or 

 synthesis of dissociated systems and groups in the active personal conscious- 

 ness. The processes and modes of synthesis should be closely ob- 

 served and experimented upon, because they often reveal the character 

 of the constituent elements of the psychic phenomena under investi- 

 gation, and give an insight into the nature of the synthetized psychic 

 compound. . . . Moreover, if the psychologist and the psycho- 

 pathologist are interested in the processes of synthesis of disintegrated 

 systems from a purely theoretical standpoint, the physician and the 

 psychiatrist find in the modes and processes of synthesis a very im- 

 portant practical aspect. For from a therapeutic standpoint synthesis is 

 cure." c. J. H. 



Treatment of Tabetic Ataxia.^ 



One of the draw-backs of anatomical neurology is the satisfaction 

 derived from stereotyped reconstructions of disease-symptoms from the 

 lesions found or suspected and the disregard for those of the usually 

 very variable symptoms which do not fit into the accepted theoretical 

 artefacts. Since the chance for the glory over finding new tracts is 

 diminishing, more credit is again given to unbiased observation of 

 symptoms as such, whether anatomically "explained" or not, and more 

 attention is given to the possible therapeutic utilization of the symptoms 

 as they are. 



Frenkel furnishes a very excellent description of the method of 

 examination of cutaneous, articular, and muscular sensibility, and of 

 the condition of hypotonia, the elements which correct the defects, and 

 their systematic training with detailed description of simple and more 

 complex methods. He uses extensively the finding that the sensibility 

 to active movements is usually much finer than that to passive motion. 



On the whole, the sensory features of tabes are mostly used in 

 the explanation, as, indeed, of late years the sensory component of 

 motion has become more and more a necessary and acknowledged cer- 

 tainty. A. M. 



^The Treatment of Tabetic Ataxia, by meians of Systematic Exercise. By 

 H. S. Frenkel. Translated by L. Freyberger. P. Blakiston's Sons. 1902. 



