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Die bangsche krankheit und das periphere nervensystem
BOOK REVIEWS Die Entwicklung der menschlichen Grosshirnhemisphiire (Schriftenreihe Neurologie/Neurology
Series, No. l), by W. KAHLE, vii + 116 pages, 5.5illustrations, Springer, Berlin, 1969, DM 58.-. This survey of the development of the human cortex by a worker who has himself made important contributions to the subject over many years, extends from the 3 mm stage through the 8 months of development. Full accounts of the changes which occur are given month by month from the second onwards. At each stage superficial and deep changes are lucidly described and beautifully illustrated by microscopic preparations. The problem of three-dimensional representation has been very well met in simple black and white drawings which are clear to follow. The author devotes the second part of
Die Bangsche Krankheit und das periphere Nervensystem (Monographien aus dem Gesamt-
gebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatric, No. 129) by R. PAVLAK, xi + 134 pages, 12 illustrations, Springer, Berlin, 1969, DM 54.-. As the author points out in his introduction to this little monograph Brucellosis has long ceased to be an unimportant disease and older veterinarians have ceased to boast of their “Bang”. lndeed the disease has considerable medical, veterinary and economic interest so that the present work is all the more welcome. All aspects of Brucellosis are covered in sections dealing with the varieties of organism, the wide variety of its mode of entry and sources of human infection. A methodical dissection of the clinical phases and pathological changes
Medical Neurology, by J. G~LROYAND
J. STIRLING MEYER,x + 720 pages, The Macmillan Company (Collier-MacmillanCanadaLtd.),Toronto, 1969, 160s. This is a very good book. The authors have succeeded in writing a textbook of neurology which is reasonably compact and succinct but yet at the same time remarkably comprehensive. In 12 chapters and a total of 695 pages of text, they cover all that the medical student needs to know about neurological illness and a great deal more, and at the same time they have succeeded in writing a text which is likely to be of considerable value to postgraduate students working for higher examinations as well as to potential neurologists. This is not a book to be read as literature. as frills and flounces have
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his work to discussion of the mechanisms and significance of the developmental processes and devotes considerable attention to five areas which can be distinguished early in the hemisphere. Each of these-paleocortex, striatum, insula, archipallium and neopallium-is followed carefully as is the early development of lamination in the neocortex (traceable from the middle of the 4th month). The work is accompanied by a wide review of the literature and will form a valuable reference book for those who wish to find out the state of affairs in the cerebral hemisphere at any particular point in development. It will also serve as a useful review for anatomists and other morphologists concerned with the development of the nervous system. E. J. FIELD
induced is made. Unfortunately biopsy or postmortem pathological material is rare but a good summary of what is known (not, however, illustrated) is given. The 3rd and 4th sections of the work deal with the variations in clinical picture and the problems of diagnosis and therapy. Modern treatment methods are discussed. For the research worker Brucellosis constitutes an important and potentially profitable prototype of primary chronic granulomatous type of infection, and its study might elucidate many obscure factors which govern the establishment of “chronic” disease. The discussion of this problem in this volume is worth the attention of all concerned with such “chronic” infections. E. J. FIELD
been omitted and the text in general is baldly factual. In every section describing individual diseases paragraphs on pathology, aetiology, clinical features, treatment and the like are clearly separated, and as a result there are a number of dogmatisms which one must certainly expect in a comprehensive new textbook of neurology of this length. One must, however, point out that this type of construction for a textbook, which in some hands can prove to be unremittingly dull, is effective when used in the way that Drs. Gilroy and Meyer have employed. In general, the book is remarkably readable and the illustrations, which have been carefully chosen, are of excellent quality, invoiving very little if any waste of space. The book abounds in useful tables of symptoms, classifications, forms of treatment and the like, and it has J. neural. Sci., 1971, 12: 236-239
Series, No. l), by W. KAHLE, vii + 116 pages, 5.5illustrations, Springer, Berlin, 1969, DM 58.-. This survey of the development of the human cortex by a worker who has himself made important contributions to the subject over many years, extends from the 3 mm stage through the 8 months of development. Full accounts of the changes which occur are given month by month from the second onwards. At each stage superficial and deep changes are lucidly described and beautifully illustrated by microscopic preparations. The problem of three-dimensional representation has been very well met in simple black and white drawings which are clear to follow. The author devotes the second part of
Die Bangsche Krankheit und das periphere Nervensystem (Monographien aus dem Gesamt-
gebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatric, No. 129) by R. PAVLAK, xi + 134 pages, 12 illustrations, Springer, Berlin, 1969, DM 54.-. As the author points out in his introduction to this little monograph Brucellosis has long ceased to be an unimportant disease and older veterinarians have ceased to boast of their “Bang”. lndeed the disease has considerable medical, veterinary and economic interest so that the present work is all the more welcome. All aspects of Brucellosis are covered in sections dealing with the varieties of organism, the wide variety of its mode of entry and sources of human infection. A methodical dissection of the clinical phases and pathological changes
Medical Neurology, by J. G~LROYAND
J. STIRLING MEYER,x + 720 pages, The Macmillan Company (Collier-MacmillanCanadaLtd.),Toronto, 1969, 160s. This is a very good book. The authors have succeeded in writing a textbook of neurology which is reasonably compact and succinct but yet at the same time remarkably comprehensive. In 12 chapters and a total of 695 pages of text, they cover all that the medical student needs to know about neurological illness and a great deal more, and at the same time they have succeeded in writing a text which is likely to be of considerable value to postgraduate students working for higher examinations as well as to potential neurologists. This is not a book to be read as literature. as frills and flounces have
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his work to discussion of the mechanisms and significance of the developmental processes and devotes considerable attention to five areas which can be distinguished early in the hemisphere. Each of these-paleocortex, striatum, insula, archipallium and neopallium-is followed carefully as is the early development of lamination in the neocortex (traceable from the middle of the 4th month). The work is accompanied by a wide review of the literature and will form a valuable reference book for those who wish to find out the state of affairs in the cerebral hemisphere at any particular point in development. It will also serve as a useful review for anatomists and other morphologists concerned with the development of the nervous system. E. J. FIELD
induced is made. Unfortunately biopsy or postmortem pathological material is rare but a good summary of what is known (not, however, illustrated) is given. The 3rd and 4th sections of the work deal with the variations in clinical picture and the problems of diagnosis and therapy. Modern treatment methods are discussed. For the research worker Brucellosis constitutes an important and potentially profitable prototype of primary chronic granulomatous type of infection, and its study might elucidate many obscure factors which govern the establishment of “chronic” disease. The discussion of this problem in this volume is worth the attention of all concerned with such “chronic” infections. E. J. FIELD
been omitted and the text in general is baldly factual. In every section describing individual diseases paragraphs on pathology, aetiology, clinical features, treatment and the like are clearly separated, and as a result there are a number of dogmatisms which one must certainly expect in a comprehensive new textbook of neurology of this length. One must, however, point out that this type of construction for a textbook, which in some hands can prove to be unremittingly dull, is effective when used in the way that Drs. Gilroy and Meyer have employed. In general, the book is remarkably readable and the illustrations, which have been carefully chosen, are of excellent quality, invoiving very little if any waste of space. The book abounds in useful tables of symptoms, classifications, forms of treatment and the like, and it has J. neural. Sci., 1971, 12: 236-239