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THE Journal of Mental Science, April, 1876.—Reflex, automatic, and unconscious cerebration, a history and a criticism, by Thomas Laycock, M.D., is continued and completed in this number. The paper is very interesting. Dr. Laycock takes great pains, and is, we think, successful in making good his claim to priority over Dr. Carpenter in certain views of an advanced nature, which, if they are not already, will soon be entirely absorbed in others much more advanced.— Dr. John M. Diarmid writes in high praise of morphia in the treatment of insanity, when administered subcutaneously.—Dr. Daniel Huck Tuke gives an historical sketch of the past asylum movement in the United States, doing full justice to the enlightenment and humanity of American physicians, while recording the outstanding difference between them and their English brethren in the principle and practice of non-restraint.—A modest but suggestive paper on the use of analogy in the study and treatment of mental disease, is contributed by Dr. J. R. Gasquet.—Dr. P. Maury Deas describes a visit to the Insane Colony at Gheel, where the accumulating experience of a thousand years has produced an instinctive aptitude to manage the insane worth more in practice than the best of our consciously-formed systems.—Dr. Isaac makes some interesting observations on general paralysis.— “Arthur Schopenhauer: his Life and his Philosophy,” by Helen Zimmern, is reviewed in a manner worthy the book and its subject.—The Journal contains other reviews, clinical notes and cases, news, &c.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 14, 122 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014122a0
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