Brain/Volume 31/Part 3/Publications Recently Received
Publications Recently Received.
[Notes on a book under this heading do not preclude a subsequent review.]
This work contains an authoritative statement of the views of Professor Marie on the subject of aphasia by one of his pupils. An excellent sketch of the history of the subject is preceded by a succinct account of Professor Marie's criticism and theories. The second part of the work is devoted to Broca's aphasia and its cerebral localization. This is followed by a clinical study of its phenomena, with a summary of the cases published between 1861 and 1906. The second half of the book is taken up with the personal observations of the author, illustrated with horizontal sections of the affected brains. We hope to consider the results obtained by Professor Marie and his pupils in the next number of this Journal.
A useful reprint of the following three papers by Professor Liepmann: "Kleine Hilfsmittel bei der Untersuchung von Gehirnkranken" (1905); "Die linke Hemisphäre und das Handeln" (1905); "Über die Funktion des Balkens beim Handeln und die Beziehungen von Aphasie und Apraxie zur Intelligenz" (1907). All these papers were alluded to in the article on "Apraxia " in Brain, 1908, p. 164.
In this book the author puts together the results of many years' work. Much has already been published in papers contained in various journals, but it will be of great value to all who work on the structure of the nervous system to possess the author's views in so convenient a form. He deals, moreover, with the most recent questions concerning the ganglia of the posterior root such as the regenerative processes which may occur within it. The figures are unusually beautiful.
A useful little book dealing with a most difficult subject. The author considers the relation of accident to general paralysis of the insane, tumours and abscesses of the brain, tabes dorsalis, disseminated sclerosis and syringomyelia. He also deals with the effect of injury in progressive muscular atrophy, paralysis agitans, exophthalmic goitre and epilepsy. This work should be consulted by all who are about to give an opinion on the legal aspects of an accident in these diseases.
This well-known work has been greatly improved by a large number of additions and is completely up to date. It remains the best general text-book in any language on account of the fulness with which the literature is cited. This edition should find a place on the shelves of all neurologists.
This book is the outcome of four articles contributed to the Journal of Mental Science and of evidence given before the Royal Commission on the "Care and Control of the Feeble-minded." The nature, prevalence, and causes of recurrent crime are dealt with, and a chapter is devoted to the legal attitude towards the problem.
An attempt to correlate the results of microscopical anatomy, with physiological and psychological facts. The first half of the book deals with the general physiology of the nervous system; the second half is devoted to psychology. As he has made no researches of his own the author is dependent entirely upon the work of others, and his philosophic views are coloured by the selection he has made amongst well-known but incompatible theories.
Contains a paper by Dr. Reichardt in which the fixed pupil is attributed to changes in the cervical spinal cord rather than to disease in higher parts of the nervous system. In another paper the same author suggests that diabetes insipidus may arise as the symptom of mental disease. We must confess that we do not understand either the method of printing or the contents of the first communication in this volume, by Professor Conrad Rieger.
Consists of a summary of the papers written by Professor Marie, together with a list of the cases described by him before various societies. A purely personal record.