NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: WITH THE REPORT OF ONE CASE

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The introduction of india-ink into the fluid spaces surrounding the central nervous system to see where the granules lodge has been an experiment repeated by many of us. We know that it blocks the normal circulation as effectually as does a granular fluid introduced into the spaces of a fountain-pen. In like fashion not a few of us, with little originality, periodically repeat the experiment of putting our calamus scriptorius to paper, despite the fact that the written word may sometimes choke rather than facilitate the circulation of ideas. Some of us, indeed, on scanning our former compositions are conscious that much of them would better have been writ in something less indelible than ink; and so, as we grow older this business of writing, particularly under compulsion, comes to be looked on with no little misgiving. Nevertheless, one cannot so far depart from tradition as to ignore a time-honored

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