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Herophilus discovered the fundamental principles of neurology, and advanced the anatomy of the brain and spinal cord. Although the Romans had but little sympathy with science or philosophy, being essentially political and warlike in their turn of mind, yet when they had conquered the world, and had turned their attention to arts, medicine received a good share of their attention.
It is no wonder that that man achieved an immortal renown at thirty-seven. Doctor Barker, the recent occupant of the Chair of Anatomy in the University of Chicago, recently elected to an even more notable position in the Johns Hopkins University, who has won for himself a permanent place in the high seats of his profession by his work on neurology, was in a company one evening.
So it happened to me, when I saw the learned professor standing by the table, with a cigar in his mouth, and his great gray eyes fixed upon me from behind his enormous spectacles. I recognized the man, and the little I knew of him came back to me. The professor is one of the most learned specialists in neurology and the study of the brain now living; he is, moreover, a famous anthropologist.
This tendency is very well illustrated by an inquiry made by Dr. Ludwig Jacobsohn, of St. He wrote to over two hundred distinguished Russian and German professors of physiology, neurology, psychiatry, etc., asking them if they regarded sexual abstinence as harmless.
Animal magnetism, one of the great sciences of antiquity, had its origin in occult philosophy; chemistry is the outcome of alchemy; phrenology and neurology are no less the fruit of similar studies.
Thus while Papin was applying the force of vaporized water in mechanical problems, a French woman, whose name unhappily is unknown, had the glory of endowing her sex with the faculty of vaporizing their fluids. Very soon the prodigious influence obtained by vapors was extended to the nerves; it was thus in passing from fibre to fibre that the science of neurology was born.
With all the means not only of psychology but of neurology and internal medicine, he has to separate the particular case from similar ones and to examine whether he deals with, for instance, a hysteric or with a paranoiac, with a neurasthenic or with a case of dementia præcox; and he will not forget that there exist almost no symptoms of serious diseases which the nervous system of the hysteric may not imitate for a time.
To-day, this study is of the greatest help in neurology and psychiatry. Only, I can't make it without the consent of the natural guardian of the patient. Doctor Burr tells me that you will have no objection." Cranston thoughtfully studied the wall opposite. "Well," he returned, slowly, "they tell me that without treatment she will soon be hopelessly insane perhaps dangerously so.
I take it for granted that you will help me if you can. First I suppose I ought to confess that my name is not Boffin, but McGill Dudley McGill, professor of neurology and diseases of the brain " Philip almost dropped his pipe. "Great Scott, and it was you who wrote " He stopped, staring in amazement. "Yes, it was I who wrote Freda, if that's what you refer to," finished the doctor.
BY ISADOR H. CORIAT, M. D. First Assistant Visiting Physician for Diseases of the Nervous System Boston City Hospital, Instructor in Neurology, Tufts College Medical School
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