This book is a classic in its field. There is no more encyclopedic compendium of the anatomy, embryology and physiology of the autonomic nervous system; therefore, as a reference book, it is invaluable to everyone who speculates inquiringly into the interrelationship between constitutional and experiential factors in the neuroses.

Certain chapters are of particular interest to psychoanalysts, as for instance, Chapter XX on autonomic imbalance, which brings up to date the original theories of Eppinger and Hess.

The clinical applications to neurotic problems of the vast array of facts which are assembled here are disappointingly naïve. The