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Excerpt from Case Histories in Neurology: A Selection of Histories Setting Forth the Diagnosis, Treatment and Post-Mortem Findings in Nervous Disease
The object of this book is to set forth in practical form, on the basis of the Case System, certain fundamental facts regarding the symptomatology, diagnosis, treatment and pathological findings in the more frequent disorders of the nervous system. To aecom plish this end, actual cases illustrating definite disease processes or predominating symptoms are narrated in some detail, followed by such explanatory remarks as the individual case demands. Atten tion has also been given to the important matter of differential diagnosis. The arrangement of the cases has followed the time honored and useful if somewhat inaccurate anatomical method of division into, (i) peripheral, (2) spinal cord and (3) brain diseases, followed by (4) those for which a definite anatomical basis has not yet been found, and (5) by affections characterized by disorders of function, the neuroses. Very brief explanatory sections on principles of diagnosis and treatment precede and follow the main divisions of the subject matter, which in no way interferes with the primary object of presenting to the reader case histories on the principle developed for medicine by Prof. W. B. Cannon and later put into practical operation by many teachers in Boston and elsewhere. I am indebted to Miss Florence L. Spaulding for assistance in the illustration of the book.
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