Literary Notices. xxlii 



Les Actualites Medicales.^ 



In a booklet of 95 closely printed pages, the well-known clinician 

 of Montpellier puts together the anatomical data which are of impor- 

 tance for the student of nervous diseases. In the first (general) part 

 (p. 1-12) he gives a summary ot the "neurone," the connection of the 

 neurones, their grouping into systems, and finally, a sketch of the 

 growth of these systems. In the second part he deals with motility 

 and general sensibihty, vision, hearing, taste and smell, language and 

 circulation, respiration and digestion. 



The presentation is somewhat dogmatic, as is necessary for the 

 didactic purposes of the little work, but concise and clear. There are 

 numerous references to literature, most of which are very well chosen, 

 many from French and German sources, but perhaps all the more in- 

 structive for us. Only 1 1 figures and 4 summarizing tables accompany 

 the text, and it is obvious that the author does not want to do more than 

 to arrange from the point of view of the clinician some of the material 

 which the anatomists arrange from the point of view of morphology. 



A. M. 



Mentally Deficient Children.^ 



The well known little compend has grown from 140 to 180 pages. 

 Apart from some changes in the old chapters, there are two new ones, 

 ** giving some account of the inquiry undertaken for the Education 

 Department by the committee of which the author had the honor to 

 be a member, — and also of the practical measures adopted for special 

 instruction by several school authorities, and notably by the School 

 Board of London." 



The book deals in a very concise manner mainly with the practi- 

 cal questions connected with this problem and furnishes relatively little 

 for the student of neurology But it deserves the attention of every- 

 body who has any interest in the broadening out of pedagogy and the 

 cooperation between pedagogical and medical measures, and, therefore, 

 deserves high recommendation. A. m. 



Hoffmann's Contributions to Selachian Embryology. 



Among the more extensive of the recent contributions to Selachian 

 Embryology is C. K. Hoffmann's "Beitrage zur Entwicklungsges- 

 chichte der Selachii "' in Gegenbaur's Morphologisches Jahrbuch. The 



' Anatomic clinique des Centres Nerveux par le Dr. Grasset. Paris, Li- 

 brairie I. B. Bailliere et Fils. 1900. 



^ Mentally Deficient Children : Their Treatment and Training. By G. E. 

 Shuttleworth, B.A., M.D., etc. Second edition. London, H. K. Lewis and 

 Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1900. 



