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author's conclusions regarding the course, nature and etiology of hys- 

 terical affections, while the second volume is devoted exclusively to 

 the detailed record of twenty cases from the author's practice, narrated 

 as fully as possible and uncolored by interpretation or theory. The 

 data of this second part are analyzed in the first part under the follow- 

 ing headings: I. Generalites ; II. Reactions liees au reveil de la 

 sensibility ; III. Interpretation des accidents somatiques ; IV. Inter- 

 pretation des accidents mentaux ; V. Interpretation des stigmates 

 hysteriques. Then follows the synthetical grouping of all of the facts 

 in the development of a General conception of hysteria.. 



c. J. H. 



Neuro-Patliology aud Heredity.' 



The first edition of Dr. Fere's work we have before noticed. 

 [This Journal Vol. IV, p. civ]. This second edition is somewhat en- 

 larged, the most important additions being found in the chapters de- 

 voted to teratological heredity, the relations between malformations and 

 morbid predisposition and experimental teratology. A chapter is added 

 on the morbid heredity of tumors. The book is well indexed, and 

 abundantly furnished with bibliographical references. 



Degenerescence, from whatever cause, the author defines as a dis- 

 solution of the conservative forces of heredity which terminates ulti- 

 mately in sterility. The treatment of the stigmata of degenerescence 

 is good. Their value is recognized and properly estimated, i. e., the 

 stigmata, so far as they are truly such, are indicative of a general weak- 

 ening of the organization and in the nature of the case cannot be ex- 

 pected to run true to type. It is not therefore possible to define types 

 of mental or moral degeneracy in terms of any particular set of phys- 

 ical stigmata, for such stigmata are common to all types of degeneracy. 



c. J. H. 



Flenry's Mental Medicine.^ 



This work is not, as the title might lead one to suppose, an intro- 

 duction to mental pathology ; but rather a series of essays on medicine 



1 La famille nevropathique, theorie teratologique de I'heredite et de la pre- 

 disposition morbides et de la degenerescence, by Dr. Ch. Fere, raedecin de 

 Bicetre, i Vol. de la Collection Medicate, 4 fr. Deuxi^me edition revue et aug- 

 mentee. Paris; F. Alcan, editeur, 1898. 



* Introduction a la Medicine de I'Esprit. Dr. Maruice de Fleury, ancien 

 interne des hopitaux. I vol. in-8°, 7 fr, 50.— Paris, Felix Alcan editeur. 1897. 



