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Editorial
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When his book first appeared in 1933, (Walter) Russell Brain surveyed all that was then known about Diseases of the Nervous System. His position on treatments might now raise an eyebrow. Thus, stroke should be treated with potassium iodide and thyroid extract, arsenic was useful in disseminated sclerosis, and tremor in Parkinson's disease improved with ‘a ride in a motor car’. Diseases of the Nervous System went through many editions and the 7th was under revision when Lord Brain, editor of this journal, died in 1966. Responsibility for Brain, the book, passed to John Walton, who wrote the next two editions without assistance and then secured a team of younger British neurologists to help with the 10th, in 1993, before handing over stewardship of the book that had proved supremely
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