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By Israel S. Wechsler. Ninth edition. Price, not given. Pp. 719, with illustrations. W. B. Saunders Company, 218 W Washington Sq, Philadelphia 5, Pa, 1963.

R. P. Mackay, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(3):319.

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When Wechsler's Clinical Neurology originally appeared over 35 years ago, it was the first American textbook of neurology. That eight revisions have followed in so short a period, despite its younger competitors, is full testimony to its value and popularity. In this, the ninth, edition, as in all the others, the broad mind and unique personality of the author are faithfully reflected. His lamentable death precisely denied to him his pride and pleasure in the last child of his labors. Like him, the book has a thoroughly clinical orientation, in defiance of the "quaint notion... that clinical diagnoses are not scientific." It was his concept that the clinician, in gathering the facts, marshaling them in the order of their importance or irrelevancy, and so inferring the nature and location of the disturbance, was in the truest sense a scientist. To him it was axiomatic that data came first from the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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