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Second edition. By Edwin Clarke and Kenneth Dewhurst. 188 pp., illustrated. San Francisco, Norman, 1996. $135. ISBN 0-930405-65-X.

This superb and fascinating book is most interesting, and one is tempted to flip through the excellent illustrations, each series of which represents a history in itself. However, that temptation must be resisted, since the well-edited text leads the reader in an organized way through the evolution of the understanding of brain function through the centuries.

This book chronologically surveys the identification of the locations of brain function over the centuries through selected pictorial presentations. Chapters 2 through 13 lead us from antiquity to the medieval period to the 17th and 18th centuries, including 17th-century scientific insights from Asia, through . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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