Brain, Vol. 125, No. 10, 2370-2372,
October 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Book Review |
BRAIN’S DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, 11TH EDITION
Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
BRAIN’S DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, 11TH EDITION
Edited by Michael Donaghy
2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £150. ISBN 0192626183.
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The sixth edition of Brain’s Diseases of the Nervous System (1962) was the first and only textbook of neurology I ever used more or less regularly, between the decision to choose neurology as a speciality and the actual beginning of my training period. The senior neurologists I subsequently came across quickly introduced me to monographs on subdisciplines such as neuromuscular disease or neuro-ophthalmology, and to medical journals. Therefore the strategy my colleagues and I soon developed if faced with a difficult problem in patient care (research is another story), was to turn to one’s private collection of cherished and well-thumbed books, or sometimes to an appropriate review article. For reasons that I cannot recall I later nevertheless acquired John Walton’s ninth edition (1985), but it was only rarely consulted and with little success. Hence the pristine condition of that dark blue tome on top of