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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 5, 1241-1242, May 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg094

Book Review

NEUROLOGICAL EPONYMS

Ian McDonald

Royal College of Physicians, London, UK

NEUROLOGICAL EPONYMS
Edited by P. J. Koehler, George W. Bruyn and John M. S. Pearce
2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £39.50. pp. 400. ISBN 0-19-513366-8.

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Over the years neurological eponyms have excited reactions varying from outright rejection to wholehearted embrace. The former was typical of Gowers and F. M. R. Walshe who in the first edition of his Diseases of the Nervous System wrote ‘... there is a growing tendency in neurological writings to employ a complex and redundant terminology that is fast rendering them unintelligible to all but professed neurologists, and to multiply the enumeration and description of those eponymous signs and syndromes by means of which enterprising clinicians . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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