Diseases of the Nervous System
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Walshe, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P. E. & S. Livingstone. 2nd edition, pp. 325. Price 12s. 6d., postage 7d.
The fact that it has been found expedient to produce a second edition of this book eleven months after the first is an indication of its popularity. There are forty additional pages and a number of extra illustrations including five plates. The price remains as before. A full review of the first edition was given in the October, 1940, number of Mental Health. It will, therefore, be sufficient now to say this. The first section of the book contains a general statement of the principles of Neurological Diagnosis and the second part a descriptive account of the commoner Nervous Diseases.
The general practitioner is thus given all that he is likely to require, but he will find that it is the first section that provides the more outstanding contribution to the subject. The teaching throughout is clear, precise and dogmatic, and although the matter is dealt with from the point of view of the organic .Neurologist there is much common sense in the twenty pages devoted to the Psychoneuroses. The illustrations in the text still tend to crudeness, the whole-page illustrations are good and the general get-up is excellent. A valuable book for any doctor’s library. H.C.S.
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