ON

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM.

BY

WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK; PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY; PHY-
SICIAN-IN-CHIEF TO THE NEW YORK STATE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM; LATE LECTURER ON DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
IN THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, NEW YORK; LATE
PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
AND OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE BELLEVUE HOS-
PITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, ETC.

THE

PROPERTY

REPORTED, EDITED, AND THE HISTORIES OF THE
CASES PREPARED, WITH NOTES

FORE

BY

PITE

T. M. E. CROSS, M.

D.,

ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; CLINICAL LECTURER ON DISEASES OF
THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND ATTENDING PHYSICIAN TO THE NEW
YORK STATE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; MEMBER

OF THE NEW YORK NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY; LATE ASSISTANT TO
THE CHAIR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS
SYSTEM IN THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL MEDICAL
COLLEGE, ETC., ETC.

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PREFACE.

THE following clinical lectures were delivered at the New York State Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, and at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, by Prof. William A. Hammond, and I have collected them with the hope that they might serve to add something to the clinical literature of nervous diseases.

I have endeavored to report these lectures in full, and together with the histories of the cases, which were prepared by myself after careful study and prolonged observation, they constitute a clinical volume which, while it does not claim to be exhaustive, or to embrace all the diseases of the nervous system, will nevertheless be found to contain many of the more important affections of the kind that are commonly met with in practice.

As these lectures were intended especially for the benefit of students, the chief aim of the author has been to present merely practical views, fully illustrated by cases, with the results derived from treatment, as far as that was possible; and in so doing he has made no attempt to enter into the pathology or the morbid anatomy, but has confined himself to a full consideration of the symptoms, the causes, and the treatment of each affection, particularly in their relations to the cases.