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Second Edition. By G. Bodechtel. Price, not given. Pp 1102. Georg Thieme Verlag, Herdweg 63, (14a) Stuttgart N (American zone) Germany.

HANS H. REESE, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(4):444-445.

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The second edition of G. Bodechtel's Neurology is comprehensive, well organized in its detailed description of the subject matter, and profusely illustrated. Eleven well known authorities in special fields of neurology are the collaborators, and the result is a new book primarily designed for clinicians, students, and investigators. It is a difficult task to review a book of 1,102 pages, even one with a comprehensive index. The second edition includes a selected list of references to the current literature, especially from the important fields of neurochemistry, neurophysiology, genetics, auto-immunology, and tissue cultures.

I challenged at first the value of the extensive consideration of central nervous system syphilis and its detailed clinicoserological formulations (Chapter 2, section 2). But in view of the recent reports from the US Public Health Services Communicable Disease Center that the estimated annual incidence of infectious syphilis was 68,977 cases (of which only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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