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edited by Emanuel H. Feiring, $28.50, Springer Publishing Co., 1974.

Joseph Ransohoff, MD, Reviewer
New York

Arch Neurol. 1974;31(2):143.

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This fifth edition of one of the most important books in the area of trauma to the nervous system follows a hiatus of 14 years since the fourth printing. The 40 contributing authors read like a list of Who's Who in neurology and neurosurgery, and many of their individual sections represent meaningful review articles, as for example, that by Theodore Rasmussen on posttraumatic epilepsy, Sir Charles Simon on concussion, and Yashon and White on injuries of the spinal cord.

Unfortunately, the volume lacks cohesiveness and a number of areas are touched on by numerous contributors with often divergent views that may be confusing to the reader. It is also evident that a number of the authors have not made serious attempts to bring their chapters up to current practice standards with, for example, one contributor suggesting that wet sheets and electric fans represent the treatment of choice for posttraumatic hyperthermia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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