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Book review
A Short History of Neurology
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A Short History of Neurology. Edited by f clifford rose. (Pp282, £25.00). Published by Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 0750641657.
Some books deserve their title and others, like this one, definitely do not. For this is not a comprehensive survey of the British contribution to neurology through 250 years. Thank goodness; because such an account could so easily be familiar and self important. Instead, Clifford Rose has assembled a delightful and quixotic collection of essays from an international panel of authors; only six of the 20 contributors are British. …