A Textbook of X-Ray Diagnosis
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The circumstance which has led to the appearance of the third editor's name on the dedication page is a sad blow to British radiology, for at the time of his death Edward Wing Twining was in the prime of life and one had a right to expect many more years of useful service from him. He however played an important part in the preparation of this volume which was in its final stages at the time of his death. This third volume, which is by far the largest of the three, is devoted almost entirely to bones, for, though the first two hundred pages are headed ' the central nervous systemthe bony supports of the brain and spinal cord loom so large in the pathology of these structures that the generalization is still more
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