This is the second edition of Gelb's systematic approach to the neurological problems likely to be encountered in general medical practice. The book seems to be aimed at general physicians in training, and medical students. Although it also contains much to engage the interest of specialist trainees in neurology, I suspect that most of them will use a more didactic text. Its appeal to medical students may be diminished by the relative lack of illustrations; pictorial material is mainly limited to anatomical line drawings in the early sections of the book. I did not encounter a single MR or CT brain scan; an omission giving the book questionable relevance to the starting …