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This little book is a reprint of two lectures by the author: (1) The physiological interest in the common neuroses, and (2) Migraine and its allies. It serves a useful purpose in calling attention to a psychical aspect of all organic disease and a physical aspect of the neuroses. From our point of view the latter is stressed too much, the author being a faithful disciple of Adler, who regards the inferiority of some organ as an important factor of neuroses.
An interesting case is reported of a man who complained of sacrolumbar pain with faintness, associated with a lipoma in the same region. On psychological investigation, it associated with an unjust thrashing at school. 'After this conversation the pain never returned. Moreover, the lipoma disappeared'. This scarcely seems to support the 'organ-inferiority' idea.
As to migraine, we are told that 'there is more or less definite facial asymmetry manifested by asymmetrical play of facial muscles, by deviation of the nasal septum, by lack of balance between ocular muscles, and sometimes by dental irregularities and the like. Slight degrees of hypermetropia or myopia, associated with astigmatism, or with imbalance, are