Brain, Vol. 123, No. 1, 3-8,
January 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Brain in the twentieth century
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When the twentieth century began, Brain had already achieved its majority. It was an established part of the neurological world as a reviewing and abstracting journal, as the official organ of the Neurological Society of London (the meetings of which were reported in detail) and above all as the place where neurologists from around the world placed their important work. What kind of work did they report? In this short review I shall survey the changing concerns of neurology as they are reflected in the papers published in Brain. With a few exceptions dictated by fairness to surviving co-authors, I have identified by name only those who are deceased.
Neurology at the end of last century was conceived as a subject which subsumed all matters to do with the nervous system, both normal and pathological, in animals and in man. Clinical neurology was firmly situated within general internal medicine.
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