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By Fletcher McDowell, M.D., and Harold G. Wolff, M.D. Price, $4.50. Pp. 201. The Williams & Wilkins Company, 428 E. Preston St., Baltimore 2, 1960.

George A. Schumacher, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1961;4(4):468-469.

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The contents are divided mainly into four categories of information and instruction revolving about (1) special aspects of history taking, (2) the method of neurological examination at the bedside, (3) the techniques and methods of special diagnostic procedures, and (4) preferred policies of management in a few selected neurological conditions. The stated goal of the manual is to show the examiner how "to collect the facts of function or its disorders first and then possibly to draw inferences concerning their anatomical, physiological, and pathological significance that may ultimately lead to a formulation and a plan of therapeutic procedure."

The initial section of the book entitled "Eliciting a History" provides detailed questions, which must be utilized to obtain additional information beyond what might be obtained in the routine history.

The second major area of the book presents a method of neurological examination which is unique in its insistence on basing the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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