Insanity and its Treatment. By G. Fielding Blandford, M.D. (Oliver
and Boyd.)—This volume consists of lectures delivered by Dr. Bland- ford to a class at St. George's Hospital. But though they treat the subject professionally. they are such as any reader who may feel an interest in it may peruse with advantage. When we say "any reader," we mean, of course, to imply the limitation which the nature of the subject would suggest. To criticise the book in detail would be going beyond our province. Generally, we may say that it leaves the impres- sion of much soundness and good-sense. "Mad doctors " have been somewhat discredited by the extravagant theories, dangerous to all our conceptions of responsibility, which they have been lately putting forth.. The volume before us ought to do something to rehabilitate them. Dr.. Blandford is calm, rational, and candid, is carried away by no hobbies, and, in fact, displays a genuinely scientific temper.
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