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Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Neurology Psychology Psychiatry Psychology, Clinical Forensic Psychiatry
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Ev.E. Carreras, Steam Printer, Publisher and Binder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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al tissues (white matter) but which also more or less involves thenerve cells; that the cord is more commonly affected than the brain, andthat this toxic agent more commonly and early involves the posteriorcolumns and that the lateral columns are later involved, though in somecases the lateral columns suffer most. It naturally follows that sensory Page Tvvrnty THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST symptoms, numbness, tingling, etc., are the most frequent symptomsthough these sensory changes may, as in tabes, involve impairment ofgait. Spastic conditions, rigidities, etc., of course, develop pari passuwith the involvement of the lateral columns in pathologic changes. If wekeep in mind the fact that changes in the blood-picture may thus accountfor both sensory and motor symptoms which might otherwise seem ob-scure as to cause, we shall be guided to helpful diagnoses in these cases.The blood count is of more importance to the neurologist than is too com-monly thought. 1501 David Whitney Building.
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Page Twenty-One A NEW MALE HOMOSEXUAL TRAIT (?) By W. C. RIVERS, M. R. C. S., D. P. H., Dublin, Ccnj., Ycrkslire, Erg.Mitarbeiter, Zeilschrih fiir Sexualwissenschaft. HE beginning enjoined upon Brother Ram is alwaysthe best. A brochure called Walt Whitmans Anom-ahj (1), then, which was published in 1913 and whichtraced the inverted sexual disposition of that poet,brought me some correspondence both home andforeign. Amongst these correspondents was an Eng-lish public school coach, who pointed out a slip Ihad made and whom later I met. Then I found thatalthough he had written he was glad my book hadappeared*, he was an invert himself; and not onlythis, but a member of a homosexual coterie; and notonly that, but one who physically indulged his ab-normal appetite. Upon which, I felt that his ac-quaintance and correspondence were too potentiallycompromising for one whose scientific name was asyet extremely slight. I asked him to send his case to Dr. HavelockEllis (to whom I wrote about him

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