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by Sir Charles Symonds, 344 pp, with illus, $18, New York, London, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Kenneth R. Magee, MD, Reviewer
University of Michigan Ann Arbor

JAMA. 1970;213(6):1041.

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Sir Charles Symonds is a preeminent neurologist whose career has spanned the 40-year period marking the emergence of neurology as a major specialty. For this reason, if no other, a new book compiling his writings must be regarded as a major publishing event. But in addition, this particular book offers unique values: The contents are the papers the author himself selected as his most important contributions; the writing is exceptionally strong and lucid; and the whole provides a capsule-history not only of the specialty but the leaders who shaped the specialty. Neurologists to whom the papers are well known will be glad to have them gathered together in this form; physicians and students in training will find it a valuable source of basic and varied information.

Two features are of particular interest—the "autobiographic introduction" and the brief background sketches introducing the separate papers. The author's developmental years were spent with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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