THE A Alienist and Neurologist, A Quarterly Journal of Scientific, Clinical and Forensic TH PROSPECTUS FOR VOL. XIX., 1898. HANKFUL for the encouragement and generous judgements it has received in the past, THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST enters upon another year with a hopeful, and it is believed, useful future before it. Its subscription list and the number of its contributors and pages have steadily increased since the day of its inception, till now it counts its friends and collaborators in all the States at home and in many countries abroad. It will continue its endeavors to promulgate sound teaching respecting the nature and treatment of the Neuro-Phychic and Nervous diseases. 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