This year three medical members of the Vienna Branch of the International Psycho-Analytical Association have entered on their seventh decade. All three, Friedjung, Hitschmann and Federn, have been friends from their schooldays, so that the interests and enthusiasms of one affected the other two. Their alliance was not without importance in their city, all three having a reputation amongst medical circles there for sound training and early successes in practice. The scientific section of University professors and would-be professors might sneer, but it gave them food for reflection when three men so thoroughly trained in natural science turned their attention to the methods of psycho-analysis alleged to be so inexact and fantastic.

Most of all were they surprised at Hitschmann, that model of order and exactness in all his work and skill, for, whilst on the medical staff of the General Hospital, the great clinical community in the heart of Vienna, he had gained the reputation of a diagnostician to whom everyday