When one compares the present state of psychiatric research with that of neurological research, one finds, in the former, an astonishing confusion of contradictory viewpoints. This confusion would, I believe, be resolved if research workers in psychiatry embodied in their creed certain of the principles which Hughlings Jackson unceasingly laboured to establish.

In the consideration of sinus sepsis in mental disorder it is first necessary to define in our own minds what we understand by the terms used, and their joint significance. A short summary of work already done is therefore given.

Psychiatrists will welcome Piney's recent preliminary communication (1) on the possible significance of certain physical characters. A series of measurements of about 500 bodies revealed that a very high number of suicides among the general population occurred in persons showing a body-length-leg ratio of over 50, i. e., the leg-length being more than 50% of the total body-length. Piney believes that persons of this type, among other abnormalities, have such mental characters as may lead to suicide. He raises the question whether body-length-leg ratios of over 50 are commoner among the inmates of mental hospitals than in the general population.

Since the passing of the Mental Treatment Act of 1930 the use made of Section 5, dealing with temporary treatment without certification, has varied considerably in different areas, and has, in general, been much less than had been hoped for. In a discussion of this section of the Act held at a quarterly meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association on November 20, 1934, Sir Hubert Bond stated that, while in the opinion of the Board of Control temporary patients should form 15% of the admissions to a mental hospital, in 1933 the proportion of such patients to total admissions was 6·5% in registered hospitals and licensed houses, and only 1·8% in the public mental hospitals.

The objects of this paper are twofold: they are, on the one hand, to give a straightforward description of psycho-therapeutic procedure for those who are unfamiliar with its more technical aspects, and, on the other, to discuss specific problems which have arisen in the course of clinical work, and which might be of interest to other therapists.

It was in 1923 that J. Capgras (1) first described the syndrome of non-recognition which has since come to be associated with his name.

When drugs are administered intravenously, the risk of causing injury to nerves in front of the elbow can be considerably minimized if the anatomical structure of this part is kept in mind. The operation appears to be so simple that the novice is frequently permitted to dig his way to proficiency, without first having been the recipient of instruction or warning regarding the procedure.