The Sympathetic Nervous System in Disease. By Langdon Brown, Published by  Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London, 1920. Pp.  161.

This little book is based upon the Croonian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1918. The several chapters consider first, the plan of the autonomic nervous system, and in the chapters which follow, the part which the sympathetic nervous system plays in relation to various visceral diseases. Finally there is a chapter on vagotonia and one on the responses of the sympathetic nervous system. The book, therefore, may be considered in the main as a work on visceral neurology. Its outstanding features of importance are its recognition of the great importance which the autonomic nervous system plays and also its recognition of the importance in the general complex of visceral diseases of the psychic factor. It is for this latter reason that the book will be of value to readers of THE PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW. The book is well written, the writer is an experienced internist, and the conclusions are carefully and conservatively stated. It is a work to be recommended to those who are interested in the autonomic apparatus both on the nervous and the gladular side and its correlations with the psyche.

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