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the nerves that controlled the affected muscles. The patient 

 seems to have been carefully and skilfully handled, both by phy- 

 sicians and surgeons. Medical and surgical skill have exhausted 

 themselves in the effort to cure him. He is by no means well 

 and sound. There are many similar cases and their disorders 

 belong to that long list of neuroses that, alas, must be classed 

 in our present knowledge as incurable. Will not the neurolo- 

 gists come to the rescue and tell us the nature and cause of the 

 disease ? Then let us hope a remedy may be found. 



NEUROLOGISTS AND NEUROLOGICAL LABORA- 

 TORIES. 



IV. Neurological Work at Zurich. 



By Adolph Meyer, M.D., 



Pathologist of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Kankakee. 

 Uotiorary Fellow of the University of Chicago. 



J. J. Honegger works quite independently of the other neu- 

 rologists of Zurich. He is the representative of the old school 

 of anatomical research, restricting himself as much as possible 

 to the descriptive anatomy of the adult brain. Although a pu- 

 pil of Huguenin and Meynert, unlike them, he never left the 

 ground of anatomy proper and therefore never exposed himself 

 to the criticistn of belonging to the speculative school. This is 

 certainly meritorious. Wild speculation has been so demoral- 

 izing that anatomy is, in the hands of many, little more than a 

 yielding and practical source of apparent proof of preconceived 

 ideas and is no longer the exact description of what the eye 

 sees. 



Our great biologists have shown us what anatomy has to be 

 in order to be a creditable science. They had the advantage of 

 finding a great amount of apparently dead material in the ana- 

 tomical descriptions of former times ; they brought it back to 



