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Brain 2006 129(6):1624-1629; doi:10.1093/brain/awl121
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Neurology in the developing world

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NEUROLOGICAL PRACTICE: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE By Noshir H. Wadia 2005. New Delhi: Elsevier Price £US75.00 ISBN 81-8147-549-6

On November 16, 1959, I landed in Bombay and met a small group of physicians who were to play a major role in developing neurology in India. Noshir Wadia and Anil Desai were neurologists, Darab Dastur a neuropathologist and Jimmy Sidhwa a neuroradiologist. That evening I met with Eddie Bharucha, the first neurologist in Bombay (see Fig. 1), and his wife, Piloo, a pediatrician who promptly told me that the key to the serious problem of control of overpopulation was rural electrification. A few days later, in New Delhi, I also met Baldev Singh, who had trained in the USA; he was the first to practise and teach neurology in India and was one of the founders of the Neurological Society of India in 1951, along with the renowned neurosurgeons Jacob . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Charles M. Poser, MD FRCP DMS

Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston MA, USA

Joan Crawford Poser, MA

Boston, MA, USA


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