A. JACOBI, M.D., L. E LA FÉTRA, M.D., Associate Editor V. P. GIBNEY, M.D., FRANCIS HUBER, M.D., HENRY KOPLIK, M.D., ROWLAND G. FREEMAN, M.D., COLLABORATORS: New York Philadelphia F. FORCHHEIMER, M.D., Cincinnati T. M. ROTCH, M.D. G. A. WRIGHT, M.D., SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. (ENGLAND, 10s. 66.) SINGLE COPY, 20 CENTS NEW YORK: E. B. TREAT & CO., Publishers, 241-243 West 23d Street LONDON: 48 Old Balley, EC. Entered as second-class matter. Copyright, 1904, by E. B. Treat & Co of CHILDHOOD INCLUDING a STUDY of AUTO and INTESTINAL ETC. By B. K. RACHFORD, M. D.. PROFESSOR of DISEASES of Children, Medi- ANFORD LIBRARY NEW YORK E. B. TREAT & COMPANY 241-243 WEST 23D STREET PREFACE IN 1893-94 I published a series of papers in the 'Archives of Pediatrics entitled "Some Physiological Factors of the Neuroses of Childhood." In these papers I made an effort to study the physiological peculiarities of the immature nervous systems of infants and children, and to note the all-important bearing which these peculiarities had in producing and in giving individuality to the neuroses of childhood. It is a well-known fact that infants and children are especially predisposed to serious and complicated nervous disorders, and that this class of diseases has been very little understood by the general practitioner, and has, in fact, not been a matter of special study by neurologists. For these reasons I decided to revise the papers previously published in the Archives of Pediatrics and make of them the nucleus of a book on the Neurotic Disorders of Childhood. Part I. of this book contains these revised papers, with the addition of chapters on "Gastro-Intestinal Toxæmia," "Auto-Intoxications" and "Chronic Systemic Bacterial Toxæmias." Part II. of this book deals with the individual neuroses. Here I have attempted a careful study of the many neurotic disorders of childhood, and have endeavored to |