them to place the preparation of the fourth edition entirely in the hands of the American collaborator; and it is but the duty of the latter to acknowledge his full responsibility for the above-mentioned changes and additions.

The favorable reception of this MANUAL has been most gratifying to its authors, as the best proof of its having with some measure of success filled an existing need; their earnest hope is that it will continue to do so.

KINGS PARK, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.,
April, 1916.

A. J. ROSANOFF.

II.

Essential causes: heredity, alcoholism, syphilis, head

injuries. — Incidental or contributing causes. — - Other

etiological factors: race, age, sex, environment, occu-

pation, marital condition, education, immigration.

- SYMPTOMATOLOGY.

Disorders of perception: insufficiency of perception,

illusions, hallucinations; properties common to all hal-

lucinations, the different varieties of hallucinations,

theories of hallucinations.

Consciousness, memory, attention, association of

-ideas, judgment: unconsciousness, clouding of con-
sciousness, disorientation, states of obscuration, hyper-
consciousness; different forms of amnesia, illusions and
hallucinations of memory, pseudo-reminiscences, hyper-
mnesia; weakening of attention, flight of ideas, inco-
herence, imperative ideas, fixed ideas, autochthonous
ideas; disorders of judgment, delusions.

IV.

SYMPTOMATOLOGY (concluded)..

Affectivity, reactions, personality: morbid indiffer-

ence, exaggeration of affectivity, morbid depression,

anger, and joy; aboulia, automatic reactions, suggesti-

bility, impulsive reactions, stereotypy, negativism; dis-

orders of coenesthesia, alterations of personality.

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V. THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY.

History taking: family history, personal history, his-

tory of psychosis. Methods of examination: physical

examination, mental examination.

VI. THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY (continued)...

Special diagnostic procedures: lumbar puncture,

Wassermann reaction, Lange's colloidal gold test, Nogu-

chi's butyric acid test, Ross-Jones ammonium sulphate

test, Binet-Simon tests, examination for aphasia, asso-

ciation tests, other tests.

VII. THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY (continued).

VIII.

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General therapeutic indications: institution, com-

mitment, treatment of excitement, suicidal tendencies,

refusal of food. — Psychotherapy. - Parole and dis-

charge. After-care.

- THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY (concluded).

Prognosis, prevalence of mental disorders, preven-

tion, medico-legal questions.

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III. DEMENTIA PRÆCOX..

Symptoms common to all forms, simple form, cata-
tonia, delusional forms, délire chronique à évolution
systématique, diagnosis, prognosis, etiology, nature, pa-
thological anatomy, and treatment.

V. MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSES.

Manic types: simple, delusional, confused mania.

Depressed types: simple, delusional, stuporous depres-

sion. Mixed types: mixed type proper, attacks of

double form. Course, prognosis, diagnosis; homoge-

neity of manic-depressive insanity; treatment.

Chronic mania.

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XI.

PATHOLOGICAL DRUNKENNESS. 363

Permanent symptoms: psychic, physical. - Diag-

nosis, prognosis, pathological anatomy, etiology. —

Episodic accidents: delirium tremens, acute hallucin-

osis, delusional states, the polyneuritic psychosis.....

Prodromal period, essential symptoms, inconstant

symptoms, forms, course and prognosis, diagnosis,

pathological anatomy, etiology, prevention, treatment.

- CEREBRAL SYPHILIS.

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XII.

437

Diffuse meningitic type, gummatous type, endarter-

itic type; diagnosis, prognosis, treatment.

XIII.

CEREBRAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS..

444

Arterial supply of the brain, systemic symptoms,

symptoms common to all forms, symptoms of occlusion

of large vessels, disease of the medullary system of

terminal arterioles, disease of the cortical system of

terminal arterioles; diagnosis, course, prognosis, treat-

ment.

XIV. TRAUMATIC PSYCHOSES.

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tia.

Traumatic delirium, neurasthenia, epilepsy, demen-

453

Psychoses of exhaustion: primary mental confusion,

acute delirium.

XVII.

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MISCELLANEOUS GROUPS (continued).

471

Chronic intoxication by the alkaloids: morphino-

mania, cocainomania.

Mental disorders due to organic cerebral affections:

tumors, multiple sclerosis, brain abscess, central neuritis.

XXI.

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MISCELLANEOUS GROUPS (concluded).

Senile dementia: general symptomatology, delusional

forms, complications, prognosis, diagnosis, treatment.

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