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By Dr. L. J. J. Muskens, Amsterdam, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain, korrespondierendes Mitglied der Société Neurologique de Paris. Price, 15 gulden. Pp. 557. Amsterdam: N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1934.

Percy Fridenberg, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1935;14(4):688.

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The relation of balance and orientation, of kinesthesia and tropisms, of reflex ocular motions and their normal and morbid physiology to the nonacoustic labyrinth and its cerebral centers has been a subject of keen interest, experimentation and clinical study ever since physiology has been a science. This monumental work reviews the research of half a century in the comparative and descriptive anatomy, the biology, the evolutionary history and the pathology, experimental and clinical, of the supravestibular system and the correlated cerebral centers and nerve paths. It traces the phylogeny of posture, static and dynamic, of locomotion, equilibrium and orientation and of gravitational reflexes, and analyzes the data of normal and pathologic function and the findings of the clinic and of experimental traumatization, almost uninterruptedly, from invertebrates to man. As the author points out, there is manifest in all medical literature of the past generation or two the desire to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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