This is a book remarkable for its scholarship and drama. Eissler offers us a study based on official documents heretofore unknown to the English reader, involving Freud's appearance before a parliamentary commission which met in the Spring of 1919 to inquire into malpractice charges against Professor Julius von Wagner-Jauregg, at that time Chairman of the Psychiatric Division of the Vienna University Hospital. He was eminent in psychiatric circles and later rose to international fame for his contribution to the prevention of goiter, advocating the use of iodized salt. In 1928 he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the treatment of progressive paralysis by malaria innoculation.

The chief complainant was a Lieutenant W. Kauders who, while in battle on the eastern front, had sustained cranial injuries with sequelae indicating the probability of cranial fractures, hematoma,