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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 12, 2573-2575, December 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Book reviews

A SHORT HISTORY OF NEUROLOGY.

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Dr Christopher Gardner-Thorpe

The Coach House, 1a College Road, Exeter, Devon, UK

In some instances certainly it is true that those who ignore the lessons of history are likely to repeat the mistakes of earlier generations. Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) thought a little differently, feeling that no great man lives in vain, that history is the essence of innumerable biographies and that the history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Interest in the history of medicine has mushroomed in the last decade or two and individual biographies, hospital histories, specialist journals such as the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences and sections in general journals such as Archives of Neurology, Neurology (Minneapolis), The Lancet, the Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine and others have conveyed the lessons of history to a wider readership.

Dr Frank Clifford Rose, Director of the London Neurological Centre and Chairman of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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