At the winter gaol delivery for the West Biding of York, held at Leeds in December, 1866, Henry Gabites was indicted for the murder of Arthur Allen.

The three works whose titles we have placed at the foot of this article∗ represent almost entirely our current English literature on the disease, ‘progressive locomotor ataxia,’ of which they all treat, and it is therefore the more unfortunate, and almost provoking, to find that all three of them, although most excellent so far as they go, are professedly incomplete in their purpose and scope. Thus Dr. Althaus has given us a lecture, which is admirably calculated to give a general notion of the disease to a beginner, but does not answer many questions which the more advanced practitioner would ask.

Upon the noble ship of medicine, which sails proudly on the ocean of knowledge, decked out with gay and varied flags, there floats, my honoured friends and colleagues, one banner inscribed with the word “Psychiatry.” It is, I might almost say, the last one added and the lowest in position. For although in the future we may hope that it will be uplifted higher, and acquire more and more prestige, so as probably at length to range itself on a level with its auxiliary sciences, with pathological anatomy, physiology, and practical medicine, and with other specialities of this last, as a worthy equal with them, yet, alas! this happy event is not yet realised! Still, my friends, we must feel impelled to advance further and fur ther along the new road that we have entered upon-that practical and positive path whereby alone we can attain to that goal at which we aim, the goal of truth and perfection. And, in fact, my friends, if I to-day, in this introductory discourse, do not unveil before you the dreary picture of the past in respect to this science of psychiatry–if I withdraw from memory all those dark deeds and barbarities that prevailed of old, and gladly let oblivion cover them, it is with the view that I may do homage to progress, and thereby place myself in harmony with you; for the purport of our inquiry into this science of psychiatry is, to find not what was, but what is, and still more what shall be, and what shall be for the better, and at the same time to investigate and advance it. In considering to-day the principles (stand-point) of this science, I shall therefore, first of all, take up that division which is known as clinical psychiatry.

In the April number of the ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ the editors append a foot-note to a paper by Dr. Edgar Sheppard,∗ asking from some members of the Association the results of their experience in the treatment of the troublesome class of patients referred to in that paper, and at the same time recording their dissent from the opinions expressed by the author. Moreover, at the end of his paper Dr. Sheppard writes:-