Dr. WILLIAM OSLER Dr. CHARLES L. DANA Dr. E. W. TAYLOR Dr. CHAS. K. MILLS Dr. M. ALLEN STARR Dr. ADOLF MEYER Dr. PEARCE BAILEY Dr. HUGH T. PATRICK Dr. JAS J. PUTNAM Dr. E. E. SOUTHARD Dr. FREDERICK PETERSON Dr. WILLIAM A. WHITE Dr. LEWELLYS F. BARKER Dr. HARVEY CUSHING TABLE OF CONTENTS ON PAGES II, IV and V 2 VOLS. PER YEAR. ISSUED MONTHLY 75 CENTS PER COPY $8.00 PER YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION $9.00 PER YEAR Entered at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa; as second-class matter, January 10, 1908, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Copyright by Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., 1916 N.B. Consult Our Directory of America’s Leading Sanitaria See Page XVIII—and following B. Karger, Karlstrasse 15, Berlin, Germany. H.K. Lewis, 186 Gower Street, London, W.C. Steiger & Co., 40 Murray St., New York. G. Stechert & Co., 155 West 25th Street, New York. Paul B. Hoeber, 60 E. 59th St., New York. Volume 45, Published January 1st, 1917 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Hyperplasia of the Pineal Body. By Howard H. Bell 481 Types of Neurological Cases Seen at a Base Hospital. By John Jenks 495 Thomas to Rabbit as Myelitis. By Edward M. Williams 503 Report of Three Cases of Familial Spastic Paralysis. By C. Eugene 505 Riggs Intentional Hypertonia. By Sidney I. Schwab 510 A Question of Epileptic Dementia with Recovery. By D. A. Thom 517 SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS AMERICAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 523 Contribution to the Treatment of Syphilis of the Nervous System (Sachs, Strauss, and Kaliski); Injuries to the Spinal Cord Produced by Modern Warfare (Collins and Craig); The Rising Tide of Disabilities Following Trauma and Their Relation to Our Compensation Laws (Sachs); (_a_) Syringoencephalia (Syringoencephalomyelia); (_b_) The Function of the Pyramidal Tract (Spiller); A Consideration of Some Selected Problems in a Year’s Neuro-surgical Service (Sachs and Schwab); Preventive Neurology (Dana); Notes on the Treatment of Mental Torticollis (Clark); Insanity—The Physiological, Morphological and Serological Characteristics (Ludlum and White); Preliminary Report on the Use of the Abderhalden Reaction in Mental Diseases (Cotton, White, and Stevenson); The Autolysis of Nitrogenous Compounds in the Blood Serum of General Paralysis and Dementia Præcox with its Bearing