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1092 Book reviews Revised by one in which the comprehensibility and applicability BRAIN S CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 4th edn 439; illustrated; boards edn of linguistics are most likely to be lost to the Roger Bannister. (Pp. £3-00.) Oxford University Press: clinician. £4-80; paperback London. 1973. This collection of papers is, therefore, an assurance is the fourth edition of this deservedly popular to the clinician who has some prior knowledge of This reasonably priced textbook. There have been a psycholinguistics, that clear, clinically relevant, and of a brief nature such as diseases due research is being done in the United Kingdom, and few additions 'slow virus' infection. With rising costs it will be that psychometric techniques are being devised to to necessary to prune future editions to keep this book forge an organic link between diagnosis and treat- value for money and, therefore, popular with ment. good of paediatric/psychological re- undergraduates. Perhaps the chapter on polio- The papers consist review articles of the fields of myelitis could be shortened. Eleven lines for the search reports and rich excessive when and communication. The con- vasovagal attacks of Gower seems cognition, teaching, and discussions emphasizes how neuralgic amyotrophy receives only seven! tent of