by the horrors Dean so lavishly catalogues, and overkill and compassion fatigue soon set in. The account of the psychological sequelae of the war and their clinical treatment is absorbing, but sheds little light on modem problems. It is unclear whether Dean commends or deplores the harshness with which so many of these cases were handled; unclear, too, as the book progresses, whether comparison...

speciality, or with neurologists. They cover a remarkable range of topics, a variety that is directly proportional to the diversity of their scholarly quality and the number of Whiggish comments they contain. Only a few of the papers warrant being mentioned by name, but there are others of considerable merit. Among the latter are the biographies, which deal with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Hors...