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IN these two volumes Sir William Gowers has collected in revised form a number of clinical lectures which have appeared in various medical journals. In the latter volume he has also printed the Bowman lecture on subjective visual sensations delivered to the Ophthalmological Society, and the Bradshaw lecture on the subjective sensations of sound. The clinical lectures deal with many subjects in neurology; some are mainly descriptive, some speculative. In reading them one not only appreciates the original and suggestive way in which the facts are presented, but also the finished literary style. In a short notice it is impossible to deal with them in detail. The two lectures on the subjective sensations of vision and hearing are perhaps of wider scientific interest than the clinical lectures. In the first the visual phenomena experienced by sufferers from migraine are described and figured, and there is an admirable résumé of physiological teaching with reference to vision. In the second lecture the phenomena of tinnitus, of auditory vertigo, and other labyrinthine sensations are discussed in a luminous and attractive way. Both neurologists and physiologists will find much in these volumes to assist and to stimulate them in researches into nervous phenomena.
I. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System.
Pp. 279; price 7s. 6d. II. Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System. Second series. Pp. 250; price 6s. net. By Sir William R. Gowers. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1895 and 1904.)
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I. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System . Nature 71, 6 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071006a0
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