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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 11, 2363-2364, November 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Book reviews

MANUAL OF NEUROLOGIC THERAPEUTICS. Sixth edition.

By Martin A. Samuels. 1999. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Price $34.95. Pp. 499. ISBN 0-7817-1830-9.

Dr Giles Elrington, Consultant Neurologist

Colchecter General Hospital, Colchester, UK

This compact volume was written by the former trainees of a world authority on myasthenia gravis. Although the cover shows a novel cartoon of our favourite synapse, no part of the nervous system is overlooked, with all neurological therapies reviewed over nearly 500 pages. Although labelled `spiral manual', it is bound like a normal paperback, and is well made. The pages of the review copy didn't fall out with repeated reference.

This is a reference book that offers relatively terse advice in numbered paragraphs, whose headings and key messages are in bold type. There are many tables, but no . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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