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by Lord Brain and J. N. Walton, ed 7; 1,062 pp, 129 illus, $19.50, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Frank R. Freemon, MD, Reviewer
Washington University St. Louis

JAMA. 1970;213(6):1041.

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A great textbook is often the product of one man. When that individual dies, the textbook may disappear into history. Bruce, for example, was unable to carry on the encyclopedic neurology text of Kinnier Wilson. At the age of 38 years, W. Russell Brain published the first edition of his Diseases of the Nervous System in 1933. From that year until 1962, as the author's name changed, English fashion, to Sir Russell Brain and then to Lord Brain of Eynsham, six editions of this work appeared. Brain's literary skill and scholarship pushed the volume to the forefront of neurology textbooks. In December 1966 when about half finished with revisions for the seventh edition, Lord Brain died. John N. Walton, an English neurologist with special interest in muscle disease, assumed the task of continuing Brain's textbook. He has clearly shown that a great text can survive its founder.

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