Annales Médico-Psychologiques (Series XII, vol. I.), No. 5, May 1922.

Chronique: Les Aliénés en liberté. (M. Henri Colin.)

Recites crimes committed by mentally affected; indicates ways in which law of 1838 could be amended so as to provide treatment, without unnecessarily irritating official control.

La réforme de l'inspection. (M. Legrain.)

Continues criticism of M. Grinda's scheme, particularly of the proposal to establish 25 inspectors, who are to report to the authorities on such topics as legitimacy of detention, mode of treatment, and hygienic conditions of such treatment.

Encéphalite épidémique. (M. P. Beaussart.)

Note on the cases treated "à l'Asile d'aliénés de la Nièvre." Observations on nine cases are recorded and then discussed critically.

propos d'une Cas de paralysie générale infantile. (MM. Hamel et P. A. Merland.) A case discussed, which "Appears to us interesting above all because of the indications which it furnishes in favour of the syphilitic nature of progressive General Paralysis."

Quelques Considérations sur le développement des psychoses systématisées par processus symbolique. (MM. Sorel, Riser and Gay.)

Records a case of a man, who, whilst thrusting aside all hallucination, yet interprets words, gestures and acts in a purely symbolic manner.

"The interest of the case resides in the richness of the Symbolism in comparison with the complete absence of hallucination or interpretation....One day, passing over a bridge he walks between a bearded man, who is on his right, and a woman who is looking at the cemetery. His conclusion is that he will be 'whiskered' if he goes to the right whilst if he goes to the left he will be obliged to look at death."

Many illustrations, as above, are given and the authors suggest that the case is one of autointoxication.

Société Médico-Psychologique. April Meeting 1922.

(1) Traitement de l'état de mal épileptique. (MM. Toulouse et L. Marchand.) Describes the two methods of treatment which had given the best results.

(2) Sur la psychopathogénie des hallucinations (à propos d'une hallucination gigantesque). (M. Mignard.)

Records the ideas of the sufferer which in the opinion of the writer will throw light on the development of certain gigantic hallucinations and also on the "Lilliputian" hallucinations recorded by Leroy.

(3) Quelques réflexions sur la morphinomanie. (M. R. Dupony.)

Describes a series of observations on drug-takers.

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