SPARKS, DR. FRANK R., formerly Third Assistant Physician at Clarinda State Hospital at Clarinda, Iowa, resigned December, 1906, to enter private practice. SPELLMAN, DR. Dwight S., formerly Assistant Physician at Manhattan State Hospital at Ward's Island, N. Y., promoted to be Second Assistant Physician, October 1, 1906.

SPENCER, DR. ELIZABETH, formerly Assistant Physician at Female Department at State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, Pa., resigned.

STEFFIAN, DR. ALICE, appointed Assistant Physician at Female Department at State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, Pa.

STEWART, DR. R. A., appointed Assistant Physician at Male Department at State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown Pa.

SUGG, DR. EDMUND G., appointed Junior Assistant Physician at Connecticut Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, Conn., June 20, 1906.

SULLIVAN, DR. F. J., appointed Acting Assistant Physician at Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Ill., July, 1906.

TATJE, DR. ORAL, appointed Interne at Massillon State Hospital at Massillon, Ohio, July, 1906.

TAYLOR, DR. CHARLES, formerly Superintendent Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, at Lincoln, Ill., resigned.

TOWER, DR. FREEMAN A., formerly Assistant Physician at the Worcester Insane Hospital at Worcester, Mass., promoted to be Pathologist.

TOWNSEND, DR. THEO. I., formerly Assistant Physician at Utica State Hospital at Utica, N. Y., appointed First Assistant Physician at Dannemora State Hospital at Dannemora, N. Y., October 10, 1906.

TRADER, DR. WILLIAM N., formerly Medical Interne at Craig Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, N. Y., promoted to be Junior Assistant Physician, January 15, 1907. VAUGHAN, DR. R. T., appointed Senior Physician at Cook County Institutions at Dunning, Ill., March 4, 1907.

WALSH, DR. GROESBECK, formerly Senior Physician at Cook County Institutions at Dunning, Ill., resigned December 17, 1906, to enter private practice.

WIGTON, DR. HARRISON A., formerly in general practice in Omaha, appointed First Assistant Physician at Nebraska Hospital for the Insane at Asylum, Neb., October 13, 1906.

WILEY, DR. JAMES E., formerly Assistant Physician at the State Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa, Ala., died suddenly December 19, 1906.

WILSON, DR. MILLIE, of Detroit, appointed Assistant Physician at State Home for Feeble-Minded and Epileptic at Lapeer, Mich.

WRIGHT, DR. ALLEN H., appointed Medical Interne at Willard State Hospital at Willard, N. Y., November 16, 1906.

Wright, DR. WILLIAM E., formerly Assistant Physician at the State Insane Hospital at Harrisburg, Pa., resigned to enter private practice.

WRIGHT, DR. WILLIAM W., appointed Junior Assistant Physician at Buffalo State Hospital at Buffalo, N. Y., September 8, 1906.

INDEX

ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

Besta, Carlo, Recerche sopra la pressione sanguigna, il polso e la
temperatura degli epilettici, 596.

Bordon, Guisseppe, Ricerche sfigmo-manometrische in alcune forme
psicopatiche, 277.

Bridge, Norman, Some truths about sleep, 283.

Cullerre, A., Troubles mentaux dans la sclérose latérale amyo-
trophique, 284.

D'Ormea, Antonio, Calcio e magnesio delle urine nei dementi precoci,
277.

Darcanne, Dr., Le signe de Kernig dans la paralysie générale, 147.
Duchateau, J., Les alienes dissimulateurs, 407

Evensen, Hans, The pathology of general paralysis, 409.

Franz, Shepherd Ivory, Observations on the functions of the associa-
tion areas (cerebrum) in monkeys, 591.

Holden, Ward A., The early ocular signs of dementia paralytica, 150.
Ingbert, Charles Emerson, A study of W. S. McWilliams, 598.

Janet, Pierre, On the pathogenesis of some impulsions, 152.

Jones, Robert, The evolution of insanity, 285.

Knobel, Bernard, On the etiology of asylum dysentery, 147.

Laruelle, L., Ponction lombaire et cytodiagnostic. Importance de la
numeration, 407.

Mabon, William, The open-air treatment in psychiatry, 590.

Margaria, Guiseppe, Studio Clinico statistico sui morti per paralisi
generale progressiva nel R. Manicomio di Torino nel decinnio
1894-1903, 278.

Martin, Collier F., The sphincter reflexes in tabes dorsalis and
paresis, 276.

Meyer, Adolf, After-care and prophylaxis and the hospital physician,
599.

Mills, Charles K., The significance of Jacksonian epilepsy in focal
diagnosis with some discussion of the site and nature of the lesions
and disorders causing this form of spasm, 280.

Ohannessian, B., e Lugiato, L., La pressione sanguigna nei malati
di mente, 593.

Seconda Nota. La pressione sanguigna degli alcoolisti, nei
dementi senili e in altre forme di demenza organica, 594.
Perazzolo, Silvio, La pressione sanguigna nei malati di mente, 592.

Raw, Nathan, Mental disorders of pregnancy and the puerperal
period, 278.

Russell, William L., The state hospital training school for nurses, 408.
Schwab, Sydney I., The insane commission of the St. Louis City jail,
598.

Tellien, Dr., Des phobies, 284.

Terrieu, Dr., Les Psychopathies chez le paysan, 408.

Upson, Henry S., Manic-depressive insanity and visceral disease, 590.
von Frey, Max, The distribution of afferent nerves in the skin, 287.
Walton, G. L., The blood pressure in paresis, 590.

Winfield, James McFarland, The somatic evidence of syphilis in
paretics, 597.

Alcohol, Mental degradation result of, Robert Jones, 39.

Alcoholism, chronic, A study of the neurofibrils in, etc., Solomon C.
Fuller, 415.

Apoplexy, A review of the mental symptoms accompanying, Charles
Ricksher, 55.

Application of the cottage system to the new hospital, G. A. Smith, 505.
Arteriosclerosis, Cerebral. The importance of its study to the practi-
tioner of medicine, James B. Ayer, 331.

Appointments, resignations, etc., 290.

Ayer, James B., Cerebral arteriosclerosis. The importance of its study
to the practitioner of medicine, 331.

Bancroft, Charles R., Women nurses on wards for men in hospitals for
the insane, 177.

Blumer, G. Alder, The history and use of the term dementia, 337.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Antonini, Guissepe, I Principi Fondamentali della Anthropologia
Criminale, 145.

Burr, C. B., A primer of psychology and mental diseases for use in
training schools for attendants and nurses and in medical classes
and as a ready reference for the practitioner, 144.

Conelli, Antenore, Prontuario di Posologia dei Rimedi più usati nella
Terapia Infantile, 145.

De Fursac, J. Rogues, Manual of Psychiatry, 274.

Department of neurology, Harvard Medical School. Contributions
from the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hos-
pital, The Long Island Hospital, and the Neurological Laboratory.
(Boston, 1906), 273.

Forty-second annual report of the Trustees of the Boston City Hos-
pital, February 1, 1905, to January 31, 1906, inclusive, 589.

Forty-eighth annual report of the general board of commissioners in
lunacy for Scotland, 405.

Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office,
United States Army. (Washington, 1906), 272.

Jastrow, Joseph, The subconscious, 399.

Kelly, Howard A., Walter Reed and yellow fever, 141.

Masselon, René, La Mélancolie, 403.

Morat, J. P., Physiology of the nervous system, 402.

Pandy, Kalman, (The care of the insane in foreign countries and in
our own), 143.

Philadelphia Hospital Reports, 274.

Report of the State Board of Insanity of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts for 1905, 146.

Second Annual Report of the Henry Phipps Institute for the study,
treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis, 273.

Serafini, Antonio, Pneumonite Crupale con Speciale Riguardo alla
sua Cura, 145.

Steiner, Leopold, Bericht des Landesausschusses des Erzherzogtums
Oesterreich u. d. Enns über seine Amtswerksamkeit, 272.

Thirty-fourth annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Public
Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1903, 275.
Thirty-fifth annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Public
Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1904, and
twenty-second annual report of the committee on Lunacy, 405.
Thirty-sixth report of the inspectors of prisons and asylums of the
Province of Quebec for the year 1905, 589.

Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 146.

Burr, C. B., Presidential Address. The physician as a character in Fic-
tion, I.

Burr, Charles W., A case of loss of memory, 377.

Carlisle, Chester Lee, Maniacal conditions in young adults. With ab-
stracts of cases, 469.

Cerebral arteriosclerosis. The importance of its study to the practitioner
of medicine, James B. Ayer, 331.

Cerebral Topography at the section table, Clarence B. Farrar, 69.
Cerebellar-vestibular syndrome, The, Isador H. Coriat, 319.

Clinical and pathological report of a case of Addison's disease with ter-
minal mental symptoms, Harry W. Miller, 309.

CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY:

Farrar, Clarence B., Clinical demonstrations, 75.
Depressio affectus, 75.

Depressio psychomotoria, 227.

Melancholia vera.

Condition of the heart in dements, Edward French, 499.

Coriat, Isador H., The cerebellar-vestibular syndrome, 319.

Copp, Owen, Further experience in family care of the insane in Massa-
chustts, 361.

CORRESPONDENCE:

Letter from France, 543.

Cottage system, Application of the, to the new hospital, G. A. Smith,