Literary Notices. 



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ered ends of the musculo-spiral nerve, but there was only a very- 

 slight recovery of function. 



Duncan 1 reports a case where the median and ulnar nerves were 

 injured by incised wounds and 

 were sutured, followed by re-, 

 covery. The two ends could 

 not be brought together without 

 too much tension ; so, after • 

 freshening the lower end, the' 

 bulbous portion of the upper 

 end was split down the greater 

 part of the way and sutured 

 down to be united to the lower 

 end, as shown in the figures. 



Fig. 9. 

 Suture of nerves. The upper figures in- 

 dicate the position before suture, the 

 lower figure after suture. The dotted 

 lines indicate the incision. Clinical Jour- 

 nal. 



Ladd's Psychology. 2 



Professor Ladd's new Psychology is one of the notable books of 

 the year. His earlier works on Physiological Psychology are every- 

 where regarded as standard text-books or books of reference, even by 

 those whose standpoint differs most fundamentally from his, and the 

 present work by reason of its encyclopaedic character and exhaustive 

 criticisms will prove even more indispensable to such as desire an aid 

 in keeping up with the currents of recent thought in these directions. 

 Professor Ladd's standpoint is so well known that it will be necessary 

 for us here to mention some of the more salient points only of the 

 present volume. In it he has devoted himself exclusively to the ex- 

 position of the facts of human mental life, and he has succeded as 

 well as could have been expected in making good his claim to have 

 reserved the philosophical problems for another volume, though of 

 course the author's metaphysical tendencies are sufficiently obvious. 



In the two chapters of the Introduction the author defines his 

 standpoint and discusses the Method, Sources and Division of Psy- 

 chology. While he gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness to phys- 

 iological psychology, yet the present volume is in no sense an exposi- 

 tion of physiological or experimental psychology. As to the use of 

 experimentation, he takes the same ground as Binet in his recently 



l The Clinical Journal, London, Dec. 21, 1892. 



2 Ladd, George Trumbull. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory. 

 A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws and Development of Human Mental Life. 

 New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. 



