Chorea and Choreiform Affections.

Abstract

This book, which is gracefully dedicated to Dr. W.R. Gowers, of London, represents "in an expanded form, the lectures on chorea which appeared in the<i>Medical News</i>, 1887," and from studies of the case books of the Infirmary for Diseases of the Nervous System in Philadelphia. Facing the title page the author has placed two quotations, one from Bouteille (1810), the translation of which is as follows: "All is extraordinary in this disease; its name is ridiculous, its symptoms singular, its character equivocal, its cause unknown, its treatment problematical." The author says in the introduction: "In the whole range of medical terminology there is no such<i>olla podrida</i>as chorea, which for a century has served as a sort of nosologic pot into which authors have cast, indiscriminately, affections characterized by irregular purposeless movements. With muscular disorder as the salient feature, as the generic character of chorea, there have been