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Book review
Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain, 7th edn.
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Edited by S D Silberstein, R B Lipton, D J Dalessio (Pp 625, US$99.00). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. ISBN 0195135180
There can be few people still alive who came under the direct influence of Harold G Wolff before his death in 1962 (Donald Dalessio being one), but his influence on the whole of neurology has been immense and still continues. His book soon became a classic—the two editions he wrote himself are now acquired only with difficulty from antiquarian booksellers. Over the years it has become slowly transformed, though …