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By John C. Keesey. 113 pp., illustrated. Roseville, Calif., Publishers Design Group, 2002. (Distributed by the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Los Angeles.) $49.95. ISBN 1-929170-04-1.

The trajectory of discovery in science and medicine is rarely linear. On the contrary, it is nearly always erratic, with peaks of insight, troughs of wrong hypotheses, midcourse corrections, and ultimate enlightenment. In this profusely illustrated coffee-table book, John Keesey takes us on a journey through the history of myasthenia gravis, from the perceptive 17th-century clinical description of a woman afflicted with a "spurious palsy" to today's sophisticated molecular level of understanding.

Why should anyone other than a patient with myasthenia, a neurologist, or a researcher directly involved in work with myasthenia gravis be interested in this book, or in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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