L'urémie convulsive.

This book can be recommended to those who desire to read in good French a review of past and present opinions of French observers of uremia in general and the occurrence of uremic convulsions in particular. Little mention is made of contributions not written in French. Twelve cases observed by the author are related. In his conclusions he states that convulsions may occur in any renal condition capable of producing uremia, but comments on their rarity in tuberculous and "surgical" diseases of the kidney. Convulsions often occur after diminution of edema and are more frequent in persons with history of previous nervous ailments or of syphilis. Stress is laid on the diagnostic importance of lumbar puncture as meningeal and cerebral diseases often are associated with or may simulate uremia. Thiers states that the cause of convulsive uremia remains entirely unknown but attaches some importance to Blum's ideas of "uremic cerebral