. Alienist and neurologist. . thin, etc.) in connection with valerian; this to be continued until theindex registered normal. In a communication from Dr. C. a month or so later, he reported: Florenceis gaining steadily, in two weeks the Bells palsy had passed away; she was practiceJIyherself in three weeks. At this time, the phosphatic index is 85 per cent. I have placed Page Forty-Two THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST her on a mixture of phosphorus, nux vomica and cannabis indica. She is improvingrapidly; has never referred to love since your visit and, except for a shrug of the shoulderor the clo
. Alienist and neurologist. . thin, etc.) in connection with valerian; this to be continued until theindex registered normal. In a communication from Dr. C. a month or so later, he reported: Florenceis gaining steadily, in two weeks the Bells palsy had passed away; she was practiceJIyherself in three weeks. At this time, the phosphatic index is 85 per cent. I have placed Page Forty-Two THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST her on a mixture of phosphorus, nux vomica and cannabis indica. She is improvingrapidly; has never referred to love since your visit and, except for a shrug of the shoulderor the closing of her eyes when she sees needles or pins, she discloses no knowledge ofthe past. Three years later I heard she was happily married, though not to a physician,and had a sweet young daughter. Whether recovery in this case was due to upbuilding the impoverished nervoussystem and the sequential regulation of the mental balemce-wheel, or to convincing themind that the delusions were silly, I cannot say. 9 North Pearl Page Forty-Three EDITORIALS. Conducted by MARC RA Y HUGHES, M. DAVID S. BOOTH. M. D., BA YARD HOLMES, M. D. CAMPTOCORMIA. Although this condition, otherwise known as Post-Traumatic Fixed Flexion, musthave been observed many times previously, we learn from PracticJil Medical Series,1916, Vol. X, that the first recorded cases were presented to the Paris NeurologicalSociety in February, 1915, by A. Soques, and described as Neuropathic pseudo-contracture. Subsequently Souques and Mme. Rosanoff-Saloff proposed the termcamptocormia (Greek, Kcunpto, to bend, and Kormos, trunk of tree) for the con-dition. In July of the same year, Sicard described four types of this forward curva-ture as forms of spondylitis, following shell shock, viz., (1) spondylitis withkjTjhosis; (2) spondylitis with kyphoscoliosis; (3) spondylitis with lumbar rigidity;(4) spondylitis with total rigidity without curvature. The condition may be organicor hysteric, much more frequently the
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