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William M. Landau, MD

Arch Neurol. 1989;46(1):21-22.

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The worst cost of the new-fangled modes of computerized literature search is the best pleasure of literacy, browsing. By the old-fashioned process of turning tattered pages, I came upon a SPECIAL ARTICLE entitled "Training of the Neurologist," by F. M. R. Walshe,¹ MD, FRCP, in the 1933 volume of the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. When I suggested to the chief editor that its republication would display to modern readers a persuasive and better written product than any current offering, he excepted only his own editorials. He was skeptical as to whether it is possible any longer even to housebreak, much less train a neurologist, but he did invite me to write an article and to "quote [Walshe] extensively."

Walshe's persuasive Shavian rhetoric demonstrates the inevitable risk of educating an Irishman to spell and write English. (Homologous proud afflictions of leadership in American Neurology are professors Joseph M. Foley . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery (Neurology), Washington university School of Medicine, St Louis.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 19, 1988.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery (Neurology), Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8111, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 (Dr Landau).

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