Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. I Venture to offer this short and, I fear, very imperfect treatise to the profession, under the impression that the increasing interest taken in nervous diseases has created a demand for a work that, like the present, shall be accessible in a reasonable compass to the student, and to the busy practitioner whose engagements do not admit of the leisure necessary to master voluminous works. It has been my aim to make the book essentially practical, and to furnish the reader with the main facts and features of the diseases of the brain and spinal cord in as concise a manner as possible. Originally written for The Medical News, a journal for students, it appears in its present and amended shape at the request of many professional friends and others who read it in its primitive form. I have introduced a chapter on General Paralysis of the Insane, for which I am indebted to my friend Dr. T. W. McDowall, the able Medical Superintendent of the Northumberland County Asylum, Morpeth. My thanks are due to Drs. Byrom Bramwell and Ross for their kindness in allowing me to use some of the diagrams of their respective books. Several of the illustrations in the following pages are simple pen-and-ink sketches which were produced in the present form for the sake of cheapness, so that the critic who looks for elaborate drawings will inevitably be disappointed; but at the same time it is hoped that the cuts will render the text more intelligible. I have been largely indebted to the writings of Charcot, Erb, Bastian, Ross, Rosenthal, Bramwell, and Gowers, together with many others who have been freely laid under contribution. DAVID DRUMMOND. 7, Saville Place, Newcastle-on-tyne. October, 1883. ILLUSTRATIONS. Frontispiece--Optic Neuritis. no.
