ON PARALYSIS FROM BRAIN DISEASE IN ITS COMMON FORMS. BY H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, = M. A., M. D., F. R. S., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON; PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK: LANE MEDICAL LIBRARY 10449 D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 AND 551 BROADWAY. 1875. 2418 B326 1875 PREFACE. THESE Lectures were delivered in University College Hospital last year, at a time when I was doing duty for one of the senior physicians, and during the same year-after they had been reproduced from very full notes taken by my friend Mr. John Tweedy-they appeared in the pages of The Lancet. They are now republished at the request of many friends, though only after having undergone a very careful revision, during which a considerable quantity of new matter has been added. It would have been easy to have very much increased the size of the book by the introduction of a larger number of illustrative cases and by treatment of many of the subjects at greater length, but this the author has purposely abstained from doing, under the belief that in its present form it is likely to prove more acceptable to students, and also perhaps more useful to busy practitioners. Notwithstanding its defects and many shortcomings, the author is not without a hope that this little book may be considered in some measure to supply a deficiency which has long existed in medical literature. No department of medicine stands more in need of being represented in a text book of moderate compass; so that, imperfect as it is, this small work may perhaps be of some service till it is superseded by something better. In it the author has endeavoured to treat the subject with more precision than has hitherto been customary, and whilst the Lectures contain some novelties in method and mode of exposition, he hopes they may also be found not unfaithfully to embody the principal facts at present known concerning this very important class of diseases. 20, QUEEN ANNE STREET, CAVENDISH Square, April, 1875. |