Excerpt from The Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-Book for Physicians and Students
To add yet another to the vast number of text-books on nervous diseases which already exist, and most of which are admirably written, is a somewhat serious undertaking, and the question whether the want of such a book is really felt can be answered in the affirmative only with some diffidence. If, despite this, the author has ventured to enter the field with writers like Erb, Eulenburg, Strumpell, Seeligmuller, Mobius, and others, some responsibility must rest upon the shoulders of his publisher, who has more than once assured him that there is still room for another text-book in addition to those already in our libraries. He was influenced, too, by the hope that here and there on certain points the treatment of the subject, by varying from that ordinarily adopted, might while rendering it more easily comprehensible to the beginner make the book none the less reliable as an adviser to those of wider experience. With this end in view, we have considered the manner of dividing the subject matter to be of no small importance, and have therefore chosen to discuss the diseases of the brain, those of the spinal cord, and those of the general nervous system separately, while diseases of the peripheral nerves, cranial as well as spinal, have been fully treated of by themselves. We shall not, as others have done before in treating of the cranial nerves, discuss one here, one there, and the peripheral nerves of the spinal cord partly in one place, partly in another, according as we are dealing with their motor or their sensory disturbances, but shall speak of the former and of the latter in the order that their anatomical position would indicate. In this way we shall be enabled to obtain a comprehensive view of them, which is undoubtedly highly desirable. To please all is impossible.
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