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By E. Geoffrey Walsh, MD. Price, not given. Pp. 615, with 11 illustrations. Longmans, Green and Co., 750 Third Ave, New York, NY 10017, 1964.

William M. Landau, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1965;12(6):658.

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According to the preface, the author intends this book to be a useful summary for the advanced student of physiology and a text for the medical student that will not be easy to comprehend in the beginning but will be clearer as the years go by. Unfortunately this second edition is not adequate for either group of readers.

Its major virtue is the bringing of pathophysiology and physiological investigation in man into concatenation with general animal physiology. As F. M. R. Walshe has pointed out, there is a great deal of mutually enriching knowledge and experience to be shared between the clinic and the physiology laboratory. However, this is not to imply that all or even most experiences of the clinic provide valid correlative data. The author seems unable to decide whether to present a text of neurophysiology, or pathophysiology, or a short text of clinical neurology. It is uneven . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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