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relations to focal diseases of the brain — p. 321-415. (5) Diseases of 

 the encephalic vessels, and the vascular disturbances of the brain — 

 p. 416-555. (6) Residual encephalic lesions, degenerations, and dis- 

 eases. (7) Affections of the special senses due to lesions and disturb- 

 ances of the nerves of special sense and their correlated central struc- 

 tures — p. 667 794. (3) Disturbances of ocular movements due to le- 

 sions of the nerves, nuclei, and central apparatus of the ocular mus- 

 cles —p. 795 851. (9) Diseases of the trigeminal and facial nerves 

 and small cross-lesions of the pons and the pre-oblongata — p. 852-934. 

 (10) Diseases of the postoblongata and its nerves — p. 935-1012. 



This outline shows a somewhat unusal grouping of the topics, 

 more like a series of independent essays than a text-book. It is in- 

 deed quite impossible to compare the book with Gowers or any other 

 standard work. At first sight we see the familiar illustrations from 

 other works and a fair number of original ones, largely diagrams^ 

 photographs of pathological specimens and cases, instruments, etc., 

 on the whole in good execution. But in the text the writer follows 

 an independent course. 



The first chapter seems to address itself to a public which makes no 

 claims to any elementary knowledge of any anatomy or histology. The 

 chapter on the latter, for instance, opens with a description of the 

 ovum of a cat. Whether a beginner would carry away as much safe 

 and well arranged information as from Dana or Gowers must however 

 be doubted. Mills adopts the nomenclature of Wilder. Besides giving 

 a number of tabulated synonyms, he is obliged to give many explana- 

 tions of terms in the text and, in many parts, the explanation of terms 

 is more prominent than the description of the things which they des- 

 ignate. The reviewer admits his dislike for hybrids such as encephalo- 

 spinal, where ^ve have the correcter word cerebro spmal, and terms 

 like meditemporal, medifrontal, where T2 , ta , and F2 and ii have 

 such a widely sanctioned use for second temporal and second frontal ; 

 or Wilder's subfrontal for F3 or ' preoblongata ' for tegmentum, which 

 term is alone used on p. 86. Mills ' aims to adopt improved names 

 when this could be done without causing uncertainty or making too 

 much explanation necessary, remembering that the book is for stu- 

 dents and general practitioners rather than for anatomists and neurol- 

 ogists.' While fully recognizing the desirability of a simple and intel- 

 ligible nomenclature, and certain merits and the perseverance of Wil- 

 der and his pupils, we should wish for the benefit of students or prac- 

 titioners that a greater union of terminology might be reached, if pos- 

 sible, with less sacrifice of linguistic habit and taste. A true estimate 



