Neurology
- Author:
Kinnier Wilson, M.D.,
h.K.CJ.F., edited by Dr Minian Bruce. Arnold & Co. Two vols., ?4 4s.
Neurologists, and indeed the medical profes- sion as a whole, cannot be sufficiently grateful to Dr Ninian Bruce for having edited Dr. Kinnier Wilson’s truly monumental work. The need for such a comprehensive survey of the field of Neurology has long been recognized. One of the great advantages of Dr Kinnier Wilson’s work is that although exhaustive it is by no means exhausting since it is written with such clarity and simplicity that it is essentially easy to read even when dealing with the most abstruse considerations. Indeed, the greatest demand will be made upon the physical capacity of the reader?unless he is fortunate enough to possess a stout book-rest?for these tomes may be said to be weighty in the literal sense of the term.
The last section of the book, which is devoted to the motor and sensory neuroses, is particularly interesting to those who are more especially concerned with psychosomatic reactions. Dr. Kinnier Wilson stresses the importance of regarding the human organism as a unit, and gives full weight to the influence of emotional and temperamental factors in relation to many neurological conditions. This breadth of out- look, which was typical of Dr Kinnier Wilson, is not the least of his great contributions to the enlargement of medical science. D.M.O.
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