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Brain 2005 128(6):1231-1232; doi:10.1093/brain/awh537
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Editorial

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Neurologists are usually advised to hold back on writing about the history of our chosen discipline until well into retirement. Critics of the amateur neurohistorian caricature such work as the cataloguing, usually erroneous, of claims for priority rather than scholarly assessments of medical achievement set in the social climate in which those discoveries were made. But, far from representing a pastime for those now declared past their time, the engagement with medical history puts contemporary work in context, and enhances its status through linkage to an illustrious past. That is why Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke (borrowing the sentiments from Bernard of Chartres): ‘If I have seen further it is by standing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

Cambridge, UK


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