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Abstract

NEURALGIA:ITS VARIOUs FORMS, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENr. Br C. T. DowNING, M.D. pp.375. London: 1851. NzURALGIC affections are probably much more common in the present day than they werein the times of our ancestors. To what this may be owing canonlyl matter of speculation; but if it be a fact, it explais the increas_ ing attetion which theyhave of late years received. Every observant traveller in paths which lead to the relief of human Misyis entitled to the thanks of mankind; and if judicious and unwonted efforts deserve a high meed of praise, this is justly due to the author of the Jacksonian Prize Essay for 1850, of which the work now under review is an extension. Practical knowledge and literary ability eminently distinguish this volume.