This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of “space-fillers”, the journalist's device to mitigate the harshness of white space at the end of scientific papers.The author has expanded these short essays and included several additional articles and biographical reviews. He has also incorporated some longer, more discursive essays, which should be relevant to neurologists, physicians and those working in internal medicine and psychiatry. The reader attracted to medical and neurological history should find much of interest in these diverse topics.
In revising these short articles, this work has expanded many parts and made more reference to sources and biographical reviews. It has also included a few longer, more discursive essays. Readers in the fields of neurological and related general medical topics should find the work of interest.
