TY - JOUR T1 - A Short History of Neurology JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 283 LP - 283 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.69.2.283a VL - 69 IS - 2 AU - ALASDAIR COLES Y1 - 2000/08/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/69/2/283.2.abstract N2 - 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. … ER -