RT Journal
T1 DIseases of the nervous system.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD January 9
VO LII
IS 2
SP 150
OP 150
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540280064017
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540280064017
AB Since Dr. Gordon insists in the preface that he is presenting a practical work for the man in general medical practice, it is fair to judge his book from this viewpoint. Now a practical book, as we conceive it, must definitely offer the reader a working knowledge of its subject—and there arises a difficulty in discussing diseases of the nervous system. The diagnostic signs and symptoms are so often complicated and variable, as the result of the intricate mechanism involved, that a short and so-called practical statement of the facts too often leads only to bewilderment in diagnosis and so defeats its own purpose. The two-page large-type statement of the clinical findings in multiple sclerosis, for instance is so entirely inadequate, especially in the light of the well-known fact that in the great majority of early cases there is no development of the series of symptoms which Dr. Gordon says