Text-book of nervous diseases and psychiatry : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Charles L. Dana.

  • Charles Loomis Dana
Date:
1904
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    graphs of my American colleagues. While a part of these are credited to their jDroper source in the text, I feel that I ought to refer here to some of the articles that have been of special service to me. They include monographs on Spinal and Brain Tumors by Mills and Lloyd; on Cerebral Palsies of Children by B. Sachs; on Muscular Dystrophies and Writer's Cramp, by G. W. Jacoby and by M. Lewis; on Aphasia, Cerebral and S})inal Localizations by M. Allen Starr; on Cranial Temperatures and on Neurasthenia by L. C. Gray; on Degenerative Neuritis, by W. H. Leszynsky; on Po- liomyelitis, by Wharton Sinkler; on Craniometry and Cranial De- formities, by F. Peterson and by E. D. Fisher; on Angioneurotic CEdema, by Jos. Collins; on Brain Tumors, by P. C. Knapp, and on Sclerosis of the Cord, by J. J. Putnam. I am indebted to Tourette's recent treatise on hysteria, to that of Fere on epilepsy, and to the annual volumes of Bourueville on these subjects. The masterly lectures of Charcot and the treatises of Ross, Gowers, Hammond, Hamilton, and Putzel have necessarily been freely used. In the anatomical part 1 have used the works of Edinger, to Avhose courtesy I am particularly indebted, the treatise of Ober- steiner, and many monographs by Golgi, jVlarchi, Cajal, His, Wal- deyer, and others. My own work in teaching anatomy and pathol- ogy has enabled me to do more than present a compilation. I must finally express my thanks to my publisher, Mr. W. H. S. Wood, for his patience and helpful generosity in my efforts to make my work a production that would be creditable to American neurology. To the Student. As a special text-book the present work will be used by two classes of readers, one consisting of those who simply consult it for reference in connection with their cases, the other composed of stu- dents who desire to ground themselves systematically in a knowl- edge of neurology. To this latter class I venture some advice as •to the method they should pursue. Neurology is a difficult branch of medicine to master, nor is there any royal road to it. Still, it can be made comparatively easy if its study is undertaken in a pro])er and systematic way. In using the present work, the student should first refresh his