NERVOUS DISEASES THEIR CAUSES AND THEIR TREATMENT MEMOIR FOR THE CONCOURSE OF 1881-1883 WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE ANOMALIES OF REFRACTION AND ACCOMMODATION BY GEORGE T. STEVENS, M. D., PH. D. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHAL- Traditionem pondero, doctrinam respicio, sequor veritatem NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1887 UNIV OF CALIF RC341 584 1887 ΤΟ DR. E. LANDOLT, OF PARIS, WHOSE MANY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS, TO THE SUBJECTS OF MUSCULAR AND OF REFRACTIVE ANOMALIES OF THE EYES, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, A 8 A TOKEN OF HIGHEST ESTEEM AND OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP, BY THE AUTHOR. 9965 PREFACE. THIS memoir, which received, from l'Académie Royale de Médecine of Belgium, the highest honor awarded for the competition of 1881-1883, is now presented in the English as it was then in the French language. "Élucider par The thesis for the concourse was, des faits cliniques et au besoin par des expériences la pathogénie et la thérapeutique des maladies des centres nerveux et principalement de l'épilepsie." Since this memoir was received by the Royal Academy, in December, 1883, many new views and experiences have presented themselves to the author, which he would have gladly included in this edition of the work. This would have been inconsistent with the plan of giving it substantially in all particulars as it was submitted to the distinguished body which had already passed judgment upon it. It has been thought best to shorten the work in certain measure, and in |