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Previous Volume 353:1306-1307 September 22, 2005 Number 12

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By T. Jock Murray. 580 pp., illustrated. New York, Demos, 2005. $29.95. ISBN 1-888799-80-3.

The history of multiple sclerosis is in many ways the history of how medicine has moved from the simple observation and classification of disease to the complex probing of biologic systems using sophisticated new techniques. The chief clinical feature of multiple sclerosis — progressive paralysis — was apparent from its first description and has been the driving force behind the study of the disease. There are few clinical conditions more dramatic than paralysis. What could cause someone to lose his or her ability to walk?

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