Excerpt from A Treatise on the Nervous Diseases of Children: For Physicians and Students A little more than two years ago a fellow-neurologist suggested to the author that it would be well for him to write a treatise on the Nervous Affections of Childhood, which would give both the physician and the student fuller information regarding these diseases than is to be obtained from text-books on pediatrics. The first conception of what such a treatise ought to be was a very modest one, but the task has grown upon the author's hands until the book assumed its present propor tions. It was thought best to include all those diseases which either occur frequently during early life, or which, when occurring at this period, have some distinctive feat ures. According to this plan such affections as epilepsy, tumors of the brain, and meningitis, which occur both in adult life and in childhood, have been treated fully, but tabes dorsalis and general paresis, although observed occasion ally in youthful individuals, did not seem to come within the scope of this treatise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.