ON DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM BY THOMAS BUZZARD, M.D. Lond. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON; HONORARY FELLOW L 341 399 1882 PREFACE SOME of the lectures in this volume were delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, and abstracts of them have appeared in the medical journals. Others have not been delivered to a class, although many of the opinions expressed in them have been communicated to medical men and students who have from time to time attended the practice of the hospital. Besides these a certain number of clinical contributions to medical societies and journals have been reproduced, with such modifications and additions as were necessary, not only to preserve some continuity in the style of composition, but with the more important object of securing an harmonious treatment of the several leading topics. So extensive, in many instances, have been the revisions and additions that the lectures, as they now appear, are essentially new. The series, as will be seen, does not represent a systematic course on even a large division of diseases of the nervous system. Although the choice of the subjects here discussed has to a certain extent depended upon the cases of disease which were under observation at the |