Hysteria and Neurasthenia

selection was amply justified is proved by the wholly admirable work which Dr. Michell Clarke has given us. The phenomena of hysteria have been known and separately recognised in a more or less perfect degree for long past, and good descriptions of the symptom-complex exist in our own and many other languages. The continued evolution of neurology, however, has made more extensive the area of what is now included under that conventional title, and has gone some way towardsexplaining the nature of the symptoms. Dr. Clarke, speaking from his own large experience and from his acquaintance with current medical literature, gives a satisfying account of all that