Ix Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



pons, and medulla, will be recognized as a classical part of the work 

 notwithstanding its relative shortness. 



The fourth and last division of the introduction, the clinical 

 symptomatology of organic brain-disease (p. 268-375) is remarkably 

 good. It would lead outside of the domain of this journal to enter 

 upon an account of detail. It is a classical presentation with only 

 few omissions, well digested, not a mere encyclopsedia of details. 



Localization in the brain is the subject of p. 376-666, the sec- 

 ond part of the work. It is an up-to-date review of the clinical and ex- 

 perimental material similar to Nothnagel's, and to Luciani and Sepelli's. 

 The topics are: the forebrain (motor region, parietal lobe, visual 

 sphere, frontal convolutions, localization and discussion of aphasia, 

 foci of the internal capsule and corpus striatum), thalamus, peduncle, 

 subthalamic region, tegmentum, midbrain, pons, cerebellum, and the 

 forms of opthalmoplegia. 



The chapters on cerebral hemorrhage, encephalomalacia and sinus 

 thrombosis (p. 667-884) are excellently presented. 



By far the greatest number of illustrations are original, many of 

 them of remarkable execution and beauty. 



We turn next to the recent work of Prof. Mills of Philadelphia.^ 



" The great work of Govvers is the only extensive treatise on ner- 

 vous diseases in the English language, although excellent manuals of 

 moderate size have been written ; and the author has hence been led 

 to believe that a large text-book, including a comparatively full pre- 

 sentation of the many recent additions to the anatomy and histology 

 of the nervous system, would be in accord with the needs of the pro- 

 fession." 



The plan of the present volume (which will be followed by an- 

 other should circumstances permit, including the remaining diseases 

 of the nervous system, insanity, and the medical jurisprudence of both 

 nervous and mental diseases) is as follows : (i) Sketch of the ner- 

 vous system, its tissues, development, anatomy, physiology, nomen- 

 clature, and chemistry — p. 1-124. (2) General pathology and etiology, 

 symptomatology and methods of investigation, electricity, and gen- 

 eral therapeutics — p. 125-258. (3) Diseases of the membranes, sin- 

 uses and veins of the brain, and encephalic malformations and aber- 

 rations — p. 259320. (4) Encephalic histology and physiology in their 



^ C. K. Mills. The Nervous System and its Diseases. Diseases of the brain 

 and cranial nerves, virith a general introduction on the study and treatment of 

 nervous diseases. With 459 illustrations. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. 



