Pioneers in neuroendocrinology

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Geoffrey Harris

چکیده

J. LAWRENCE POOL, The Neurological Institute of New York 1909-1974, with personal anecdotes, Lakeville, Conn., Pocket Knife Press for the author, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, illus., $5.00 (Copies available from the author, Box 31, West Cornwall, Conn. 06796, U.S.A.) The Institute, the first of its kind in America, is now one of the most outstanding centres in the world for the treatment of, and research into, neurological disorders. Its reputation has been built up by a sequence of men whose names are well known in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, and the neurosciences in general: Tilney, Elsberg, T. J. Putnam, Houston Merritt, Pearce Bailey, Stookey, Foster Kennedy, H. A. Riley, Davidoff, Scarff, Penfield, Bernard Sachs, Abner Wolf, Strong and Elwyn, Dyke, and Mettler amongst others. In thirty years it has produced twentyeight professors of neurology and twenty-one professors of neurosurgery. The author tells of its progress using some of his own recollections from his twentythree years as chairman of the Institute's neurosurgical service. His book is, in fact, a continuation of one by Charles Elsberg who traced the history of the Institute from its founding in 1909 until 1930, a summary of which forms the first chapter. Dr. Pool has written a fascinating account in an engaging style of a renowned hospital and research centre, which represents an important contribution to the history of world neurology. It can be warmly recommended.

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