Excerpt from Text-Book of Nervous Diseases: Being a Compendium for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine IT is the object of the author in this treatise to present the sci ence of neurology in a concise yet as far as possible complete form. Each subject has been taken, all the available facts regarding it have been ascertained, the writer's own experience has been col lated, and with the data thus gathered the chapters have been writ ten. The labor involved in such a task has been very great, but I am encouraged to believe that the result will be a useful one; for the work does not compare or compete with the large treatises which are already in the field nor with the smaller introductory text books. I have tried to furnish a book which will be suitable for the student and practitioner and not valueless to the specialist. The extreme importance of a knowledge of anatomy has led me. To pay especial attention to furnishing in a condensed form the most recent accessions to our knowledge of this subject. Starting with the facts that can be gained in ordinary anatomical works, the stu dent can, I believe, acquire a good idea of modern neuro-anatomy with the help of the anatomical chapters given here. In the classification of nervous diseases and the description of their pathology, I have tried to apply the modern knowledge of general pathology as modified by bacteriology. This I have done. Conservatively, yet not less than in my opinion is absolutely de manded. A good deal of havoc will be wrought eventually in our conception of the nature of nervous diseases by the newer patho logical doctrines; I have made as little change as was consonant with undeniable facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.